despreciable
[d̪espɾeˈsjaβ̞le]
The verdict
“despreciable” has 20 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,337. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,337
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Digno de poca o ninguna estima.
Corpus desk
Index ES-despreciable · despreciable · Spanish
despreciable · rank #14,337 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,337
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH descender
Nearest frequency peer: descender (-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 “despreciable”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Denis
Denis
85,667 corpus weight
- denso
denso
85,666 corpus weight
- descender
descender
85,665 corpus weight
- despreciable
despreciable
85,664 corpus weight
- desvío
desvío
85,663 corpus weight
- detenerse
detenerse
85,662 corpus weight
What this shows “despreciable” 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 | despreciable |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [d̪espɾeˈsjaβ̞le] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #14,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “despreciable”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around despreciable (IPA [d̪espɾeˈsjaβ̞le]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,337 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for despreciable, with forms such as "ddespreciable", "depsreciable", and "desperciable". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "despreciables", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is despreciable, spelled D-E-S-P-R-E-C-I-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Digno de poca o ninguna estima.
- 2Escaso, en poca cantidad.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how despreciable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ella, que ha sufrido y ha sido endurecida por la vida, desde niña, cuando fue seducida por un amigo de su familia -el único personaje totalmente despreciable del libro, el abogado corrupto y oportunista político Viktor Komarovski-, esta caracterización esfumada nos parece una falla narrativa
De hecho una de las pocas soluciones exactas que conocemos de estas ecuaciones relativistas corresponde al caso de una masa inmensamente grande alrededor de la cual orbita otra tan diminuta que su influencia sobre la primera se considera despreciable
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddespreciable
- depsreciable
- desperciable
- desppreciable
- desprceiable
- desprecaible
- desprecciable
- despreciabble
- despreciabel
- despreciablle
- desprecialbe
- despreciavle
- desprecibale
- despreicable
- despresiable
- desprreciable
- desrpeciable
- desspreciable
- dsepreciable
- edspreciable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of despreciable - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).