despacio
[d̪esˈpasjo]
The verdict
“despacio” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,941. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,941
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que procede lentamente.
Corpus desk
Index ES-despacio · despacio · Spanish
despacio · rank #8,941 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,941
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH deseaba
Nearest frequency peer: deseaba (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “despacio”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- denunciado
denunciado
91,063 corpus weight
- desastres
desastres
91,062 corpus weight
- deseaba
deseaba
91,061 corpus weight
- despacio
despacio
91,060 corpus weight
- doméstico
doméstico
91,058 corpus weight
- dramática
dramática
91,057 corpus weight
What this shows “despacio” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despacio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [d̪esˈpasjo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “despacio”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around despacio (IPA [d̪esˈpasjo]), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #8,941 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for despacio, with forms such as "ddespacio", "depsacio", and "desapcio". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "destaco", "despidió", "despecho", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is despacio, spelled D-E-S-P-A-C-I-O.
Definition
- 1Que procede lentamente.
- 2Que emplea mucho tiempo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddespacio
- depsacio
- desapcio
- despaccio
- despacoi
- despaico
- despasio
- despcaio
- desppacio
- desspacio
- dsepacio
- edspacio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of despacio - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "despacio", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).