despertaba
[d̪espeɾˈt̪aβ̞a]
The verdict
“despertaba” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #26,805. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,805
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de despertar o de despertarse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-despertaba · despertaba · Spanish
despertaba · rank #26,805 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,805
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH desmentir
Nearest frequency peer: desmentir (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “despertaba”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- descuida
descuida
73,199 corpus weight
- desencadenar
desencadenar
73,198 corpus weight
- desmentir
desmentir
73,197 corpus weight
- despertaba
despertaba
73,196 corpus weight
- destierro
destierro
73,195 corpus weight
- destinatari…
destinatarios
73,194 corpus weight
What this shows “despertaba” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despertaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪espeɾˈt̪aβ̞a] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #26,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “despertaba”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around despertaba (IPA [d̪espeɾˈt̪aβ̞a]), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,805 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for despertaba, with forms such as "ddespertaba", "depsertaba", and "deseprtaba". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "despertar", "despertado", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is despertaba, spelled D-E-S-P-E-R-T-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de despertar o de despertarse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de despertar o de despertarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddespertaba
- depsertaba
- deseprtaba
- desperatba
- desperrtaba
- despertaab
- despertabba
- despertava
- despertbaa
- desperttaba
- despetraba
- desppertaba
- despretaba
- desspertaba
- dsepertaba
- edspertaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of despertaba - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).