despojan
[d̪esˈpoxãn]
The verdict
“despojan” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #87,727 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,727
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de despojar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-despojan · despojan · Spanish
despojan · rank #87,727 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,727
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH despedían
Nearest frequency peer: despedían (-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 “despojan”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- desmintieron
desmintieron
12,277 corpus weight
- desobedient…
desobedientes
12,276 corpus weight
- despedían
despedían
12,275 corpus weight
- despojan
despojan
12,274 corpus weight
- destornilla…
destornilladores
12,272 corpus weight
- desviamos
desviamos
12,271 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “despojan” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despojan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪esˈpoxãn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “despojan” en español
Rare enough to double-check
despojan is uncommon Spanish at frequency #87,727 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪esˈpoxãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de despojar.".
despojan doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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. The correct Spanish form is despojan, spelled D-E-S-P-O-J-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de despojar.
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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