detener
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,316
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
detener is aSpanishverb. It means: Suspender una cosa, impedir, estorbar que pase adelante. Pronounced [d̪et̪eˈneɾ]. It ranks #3,316 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with detiene and detenga.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | detener |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪et̪eˈneɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for detener is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪et̪eˈneɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,316 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for detener, with forms such as "ddetener", "deetner", and "deteenr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "detiene", "detenga", "devenir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is detener, spelled D-E-T-E-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Suspender una cosa, impedir, estorbar que pase adelante.
- 2Arrestar, poner en prisión.
- 3Retener, conservar o guardar.
- 4Retardar o bajar la velocidad de algo, hasta pararlo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddetener,deetner,deteenr,detenerr,detenner,detenre,detneer,dettener,dteener,edtener
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for detener
Misspelling Variants of "detener"
Frequency rank: #3,316 in Spanish
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