despacho
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,072
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
despacho is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de despachar o de despacharse. Pronounced [d̪esˈpat͡ʃo]. It ranks #4,072 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with destaco and despacio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despacho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪esˈpat͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for despacho is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪esˈpat͡ʃo]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,072 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 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 despacho, with forms such as "ddespacho", "depsacho", and "desapcho". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "destaco", "despacio", "despecho", 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 despacho, spelled D-E-S-P-A-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de despachar o de despacharse.
- 2Habitación de una vivienda u establecimiento destinada a la gestión de negocios o al estudio.
- 3Mobiliario y enseres de un despacho₂.
- 4Parte de un establecimiento fabril, artesanal o comercial destinado a la venta y entrega de mercancías.
- 5Comunicación escrita oficial entre un gobierno y sus diplomáticos, o entre un mando militar y los oficiales en el campo.
- 6En particular, despacho₅ que notifica de un nombramiento o comisión a su destinatario.
- 7Más generalmente, cualquier comunicación enviada por medios eléctricos o electrónicos, como un telegrama o teletipo.
- 8Ensanche de las galerías de una mina junto al pozo principal.
- 9Tienda dedicada a la venta al por menor de provisiones y vituallas, en general no perecederas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddespacho,depsacho,desapcho,despaccho,despachho,despacoh,despahco,despcaho,desppacho,desspacho,dsepacho,edspacho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for despacho
Misspelling Variants of "despacho"
Frequency rank: #4,072 in Spanish
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