despegar
Spanish, verb/despeˈɡaɾ/
despegar is spelled D-E-S-P-E-G-A-R (8 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Spanish, the 16,530th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Despegar is a Spanish verb meaning “to detach, to remove, to unstick” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Separarse de la superficie, iniciar el vuelo, especialmente un avión”.
What does despegar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to detach, to remove, to unstick
- 2
to take off (to leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air)
- 3
to become alienated
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Separarse de la superficie, iniciar el vuelo, especialmente un avión. 2. Separar o cortar la unión de una cosa con otra. 3. Afianzarse, iniciar un progreso. 4. Descoserse una cosa cosida a otra.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of despegar
- despego first-person present singular
- despegué first-person preterite singular
- despegado participle past
- g-gu alternation
- despegando gerund
- despegada feminine participle past
- despegados masculine participle past
- despegadas feminine participle past
- despegas indicative informal present
- despegás indicative informal present
- despega indicative present singular
- despegamos first-person indicative plural
- despegáis indicative plural present
- despegan indicative plural present
- despegaba first-person imperfect indicative
- despegabas imperfect indicative second-person
- despegábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- despegabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce despegar?
- /despeˈɡaɾ/
- [d̪es.peˈɣ̞aɾ]
- [d̪espeˈɣ̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to despegar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is despegar in Spanish?
despegar appears 3.2 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).