despierta
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,074
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
despierta is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de despertar o de despertarse. Pronounced [d̪esˈpjeɾt̪a]. It ranks #4,074 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with despierto and despierte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despierta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esˈpjeɾt̪a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for despierta is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪esˈpjeɾt̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,074 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for despierta, with forms such as "ddespierta", "depsierta", and "desiperta". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "despierto", "despierte", "despiertan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 despierta, spelled D-E-S-P-I-E-R-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de despertar o de despertarse.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de despertar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddespierta,depsierta,desiperta,despeirta,despierat,despierrta,despiertta,despietra,despireta,desppierta,desspierta,dsepierta,edspierta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for despierta
Misspelling Variants of "despierta"
Frequency rank: #4,074 in Spanish
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