desperar
Letters
8 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
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desperar is aSpanishverb. It means: Perder la esperanza de que algo suceda. Pronounced [d̪espeˈɾaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desperar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪espeˈɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for desperar is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪espeˈɾaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Perder la esperanza de que algo suceda.".
No misspelling variants are generated for desperar 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 desperar, spelled D-E-S-P-E-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Perder la esperanza de que algo suceda.
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