destilar
[d̪est̪iˈlaɾ]
The verdict
“destilar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #68,491 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,491
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Separar, por el calor, una substancia volátil de otra más fija.
Corpus desk
Index ES-destilar · destilar · Spanish
destilar · rank #68,491 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,491
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH desprestigiado
Nearest frequency peer: desprestigiado (-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 “destilar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- despechada
despechada
31,514 corpus weight
- despedazado
despedazado
31,513 corpus weight
- desprestigi…
desprestigiado
31,511 corpus weight
- destilar
destilar
31,510 corpus weight
- destituye
destituye
31,509 corpus weight
- desvelando
desvelando
31,507 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “destilar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | destilar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪est̪iˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “destilar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
destilar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #68,491 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪est̪iˈlaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Separar, por el calor, una substancia volátil de otra más fija.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for destilar, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 destilar, spelled D-E-S-T-I-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Separar, por el calor, una substancia volátil de otra más fija.
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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