detengamos
[d̪et̪ẽŋˈgamos]
The verdict
“detengamos” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,530 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,530
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de subjuntivo de detener o de detenerse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-detengamos · detengamos · Spanish
detengamos · rank #51,530 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,530
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH desviada
Nearest frequency peer: desviada (-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 “detengamos”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- desmontado
desmontado
48,475 corpus weight
- desprovista
desprovista
48,473 corpus weight
- desviada
desviada
48,472 corpus weight
- detengamos
detengamos
48,471 corpus weight
- devolvía
devolvía
48,470 corpus weight
- diapositiva
diapositiva
48,468 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “detengamos” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | detengamos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪et̪ẽŋˈgamos] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “detengamos” en español
Rare enough to double-check
detengamos is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,530 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪et̪ẽŋˈgamos]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for detengamos, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is detengamos, spelled D-E-T-E-N-G-A-M-O-S.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del presente de subjuntivo de detener o de detenerse.
- 2Primera persona del plural (nosotros, nosotras) del imperativo (exhortatorio) de detener o del imperativo negativo de detenerse.
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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