despegan
[d̪esˈpeɣ̞ãn]
The verdict
“despegan” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #73,549 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,549
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de despegar o de despegarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-despegan · despegan · Spanish
despegan · rank #73,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,549
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH desmoronando
Nearest frequency peer: desmoronando (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “despegan”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- desenterrado
desenterrado
26,456 corpus weight
- desfiladeros
desfiladeros
26,455 corpus weight
- desgraciadas
desgraciadas
26,454 corpus weight
- desmoronando
desmoronando
26,453 corpus weight
- despegan
despegan
26,452 corpus weight
- despilfarrar
despilfarrar
26,451 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “despegan” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despegan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esˈpeɣ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “despegan” en español
Rare enough to double-check
despegan is uncommon Spanish at frequency #73,549 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪esˈpeɣ̞ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de despegar o de despegarse.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for despegan, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct Spanish form is despegan, spelled D-E-S-P-E-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de despegar o de despegarse.
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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