despedirse
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,404
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
despedirse is aSpanishverb. It means: Decir adiós; hacer una expresión afectuosa o educada al separarse de alguien. Pronounced [d̪espeˈð̞iɾse]. Often confused with despedir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despedirse |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪espeˈð̞iɾse] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for despedirse is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪espeˈð̞iɾse]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,404 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for despedirse, with forms such as "ddespedirse", "depsedirse", and "desepdirse". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "despedir", 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 despedirse, spelled D-E-S-P-E-D-I-R-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Decir adiós; hacer una expresión afectuosa o educada al separarse de alguien.
- 2Perder la esperanza de lograr algo.
- 3Hacer una última visita a familiares y/o amigos cuando la persona se marcha de un sitio y se separa de ellos.
- 4Dicho de un programa de televisión, transmitirse por última vez.
- 5Por extensión, cesar sus transmisiones una estación de radio o de televisión.
- 6Dicho de un artista o cantante; ejecutar sus últimas funciones antes de retirarse definitivamente.
- 7Dicho de un evento, culminar, llegar a su fin.
- 8Por extensión, dicho de una persona, fallecer, especialmente luego de una agonía más o menos prolongada.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddespedirse,depsedirse,desepdirse,despdeirse,despeddirse,despedirce,despedires,despedirrse,despedirsse,despedisre,despedrise,despeidrse,desppedirse,desspedirse,dsepedirse,edspedirse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for despedirse
Misspelling Variants of "despedirse"
Frequency rank: #17,404 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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