designar
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,755
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
designar is aSpanishverb. It means: Formar designio o propósito. Pronounced [d̪esiɣ̞ˈnaɾ]. Often confused with desigual and destinar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | designar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esiɣ̞ˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for designar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪esiɣ̞ˈnaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,755 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for designar, with forms such as "ddesignar", "decignar", and "deisgnar". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "desigual", "destinar", "design", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is designar, spelled D-E-S-I-G-N-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Formar designio o propósito.
- 2Señalar o destinar una persona o cosa para determinado fin.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddesignar,decignar,deisgnar,desginar,desiganr,desiggnar,designarr,designnar,designra,desingar,dessignar,dseignar,edsignar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for designar
Misspelling Variants of "designar"
Frequency rank: #11,755 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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