despojo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,864
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
despojo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de despojar. Pronounced [d̪esˈpoxo]. Often confused with déspota and despojos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despojo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪esˈpoxo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for despojo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪esˈpoxo]. Corpus data places it at rank #30,864 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for despojo, with forms such as "ddespojo", "depsojo", and "desopjo". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "déspota", "despojos", "despido", 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 despojo, spelled D-E-S-P-O-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de despojar.
- 2Presa, botín del vencedor.
- 3Vientre, asadura, cabeza y manos de las reses que se matan para el abasto público.
- 4Alones, molleja, patas, pescuezo y cabeza de las aves muertas.
- 5Lo que se ha perdido por el tiempo, por la muerte u otros accidentes.
- 6Extracción de los minerales de una vena o filón.
- 7Espolio.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddespojo,depsojo,desopjo,despjoo,despojjo,despooj,desppojo,desspojo,dsepojo,edspojo
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for despojo
Misspelling Variants of "despojo"
Frequency rank: #30,864 in Spanish
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