despreciaban
[d̪espɾeˈsjaβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“despreciaban” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #97,271 among 90,663 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,271
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 90,663
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de despreciar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-despreciaban · despreciaban · Spanish
despreciaban · rank #97,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,271
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 90,663
- PHOTO-FINISH desvarío
Nearest frequency peer: desvarío (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “despreciaban”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- desentierra
desentierra
2,734 corpus weight
- desinflado
desinflado
2,733 corpus weight
- desmemoria
desmemoria
2,732 corpus weight
- despreciaban
despreciaban
2,730 corpus weight
- desvarío
desvarío
2,729 corpus weight
- desvelados
desvelados
2,728 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “despreciaban” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despreciaban |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪espɾeˈsjaβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #97,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “despreciaban” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
despreciaban is uncommon Spanish at frequency #97,271 among 90,663 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪espɾeˈsjaβ̞ãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de despreciar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for despreciaban, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 despreciaban, spelled D-E-S-P-R-E-C-I-A-B-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de despreciar.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.