desigual
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,798
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
desigual is anSpanishadj. It means: Que no tiene las mismas características que otro ser en cuanto a su naturaleza, tamaño, calidad, cantidad, aspecto, etc. Pronounced [d̪esiˈɣ̞wal]. Often confused with desiguales and designa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desigual |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [d̪esiˈɣ̞wal] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for desigual is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪esiˈɣ̞wal]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,798 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for desigual, with forms such as "ddesigual", "decigual", and "deisgual". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "desiguales", "designa", "designar", 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 desigual, spelled D-E-S-I-G-U-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que no tiene las mismas características que otro ser en cuanto a su naturaleza, tamaño, calidad, cantidad, aspecto, etc.
- 2Se dice de algo, especialmente del clima y del ánimo, cuya condición cambia o varía según el tiempo o las circunstancias.
- 3Se dice de un conjunto o de una mezcla cuyos elementos o partes son de naturaleza diferente, cuya composición no es uniforme.
- 4Se dice del suelo o de una superficie que tiene altibajos, con quiebras y cuestas, que no está nivelado o igualado.
- 5Con muchos obstáculos o impedimentos.
- 6Que posee una cualidad en extremo, exceso o demasía.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddesigual,decigual,deisgual,desgiual,desigaul,desiggual,desiguall,desigula,desiugal,dessigual,dseigual,edsigual
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for desigual
Misspelling Variants of "desigual"
Frequency rank: #12,798 in Spanish
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