despelote
[d̪espeˈlot̪e]
The verdict
“despelote” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,992 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,992
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de despelotar o despelotarse (en sus diferentes acepciones y etimologías).
Corpus desk
Index ES-despelote · despelote · Spanish
despelote · rank #79,992 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,992
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH desmoralizaci…
Nearest frequency peer: desmoralización (-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 “despelote”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- deshagan
deshagan
20,012 corpus weight
- desmenuzar
desmenuzar
20,011 corpus weight
- desmoraliza…
desmoralización
20,010 corpus weight
- despelote
despelote
20,009 corpus weight
- desprovistas
desprovistas
20,008 corpus weight
- destilados
destilados
20,007 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “despelote” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despelote |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪espeˈlot̪e] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “despelote” en español
Rare enough to double-check
despelote is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,992 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [d̪espeˈlot̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for despelote, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is despelote, spelled D-E-S-P-E-L-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de despelotar o despelotarse (en sus diferentes acepciones y etimologías).
- 2Situación de desorden y confusión.
- 3Grupo de personas en desorden y haciendo ruido; barullo.
- 4Enfrentamiento verbal o físico entre dos o más personas.
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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