desproporción
[d̪espɾopoɾˈsjõn]
The verdict
“desproporción” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #60,722 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #60,722
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Falta de la proporción debida.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desproporción |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪espɾopoɾˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #60,722 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “desproporción” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for desproporción is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪espɾopoɾˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,722 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
desproporción has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 desproporción, spelled D-E-S-P-R-O-P-O-R-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Falta de la proporción debida.
- 2Carencia de la simetría adecuada.
Synonyms
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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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Using “desproporción”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-E-S-P-R-O-P-O-R-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [d̪espɾopoɾˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.