devastar
[d̪eβ̞asˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“devastar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,889 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,889
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer que un lugar pierda su orden y quede reducido a ruinas o a pedazos; causar destrucción o graves daños en un territorio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-devastar · devastar · Spanish
devastar · rank #80,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,889
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH desmovilizados
Nearest frequency peer: desmovilizados (-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 “devastar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- desenterrar…
desenterraron
19,117 corpus weight
- desmoviliza…
desmovilizados
19,113 corpus weight
- devastar
devastar
19,112 corpus weight
- diademas
diademas
19,109 corpus weight
- dieses
dieses
19,108 corpus weight
- digiere
digiere
19,107 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “devastar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devastar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪eβ̞asˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “devastar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
devastar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,889 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪eβ̞asˈt̪aɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
devastar 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is devastar, spelled D-E-V-A-S-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer que un lugar pierda su orden y quede reducido a ruinas o a pedazos; causar destrucción o graves daños en un territorio.
- 2Afectar profundamente, produciendo gran dolor o pérdida en alguien, especialmente moral o emotiva, pero también de tipo económico o material.
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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