desmayo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,832
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
desmayo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Breve pérdida de conocimiento y desfallecimiento de las fuerzas causados por una disminución del flujo sanguíneo al cerebro. Causa una pérdida del tono muscular y del color en la cara, palidez. Pronounced [d̪esˈmaʝo]. Often confused with destaco and desmayos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desmayo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪esˈmaʝo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for desmayo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪esˈmaʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,832 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for desmayo, with forms such as "ddesmayo", "demsayo", and "desamyo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "destaco", "desmayos", "deseado", 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 desmayo, spelled D-E-S-M-A-Y-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Breve pérdida de conocimiento y desfallecimiento de las fuerzas causados por una disminución del flujo sanguíneo al cerebro. Causa una pérdida del tono muscular y del color en la cara, palidez.
- 2Desánimo, desgana.
- 3Sauce llorón.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddesmayo,demsayo,desamyo,desmaoy,desmayyo,desmmayo,desmyao,dessmayo,dsemayo,edsmayo
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Misspelling Variants of "desmayo"
Frequency rank: #24,832 in Spanish
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