despavesar
Letters
10 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
despavesar is aSpanishverb. It means: Limpiar la mecha de una vela o candil al retirar los residuos carbonizados que impiden su correcta combustión. Pronounced [d̪espaβ̞eˈsaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despavesar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪espaβ̞eˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for despavesar is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪espaβ̞eˈsaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for despavesar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 despavesar, spelled D-E-S-P-A-V-E-S-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Limpiar la mecha de una vela o candil al retirar los residuos carbonizados que impiden su correcta combustión.
- 2Avivar el fuego o las brasas al eliminar, mediante un soplo, la capa de ceniza que cubre su superficie.
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