despuntar
[d̪espũn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“despuntar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,242 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,242
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quitar o gastar la punta de algo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-despuntar · despuntar · Spanish
despuntar · rank #62,242 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,242
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH despreocupaci…
Nearest frequency peer: despreocupación (-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 “despuntar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- desplomado
desplomado
37,762 corpus weight
- despoblada
despoblada
37,761 corpus weight
- despreocupa…
despreocupación
37,760 corpus weight
- despuntar
despuntar
37,759 corpus weight
- determinista
determinista
37,758 corpus weight
- detona
detona
37,757 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “despuntar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despuntar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪espũn̪ˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “despuntar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
despuntar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,242 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪espũn̪ˈt̪aɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for despuntar in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is despuntar, spelled D-E-S-P-U-N-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Quitar o gastar la punta de algo.
- 2Cortar las ceras vanas de la colmena hasta llegar a las celdillas donde está la cría de abeja.
- 3Desapuntar.
This word in other languages
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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