devolver
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,492
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
devolver is aSpanishverb. It means: Hacer que algo regrese a su estado o ubicación anterior. Pronounced [d̪eβ̞olˈβ̞eɾ]. It ranks #5,492 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with devolvió and disolver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | devolver |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪eβ̞olˈβ̞eɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for devolver is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eβ̞olˈβ̞eɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,492 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for devolver, with forms such as "ddevolver", "debolber", and "deovlver". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "devolvió", "disolver", "devolverá", 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 devolver, spelled D-E-V-O-L-V-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hacer que algo regrese a su estado o ubicación anterior.
- 2Dar otra vez algo a quien antes lo tenía o poseía.
- 3Hacer una acción que corresponde o se compara con la de alguien efectuada anteriormente, como una visita, un favor, un daño, una ofensa, etc.
- 4Entregar a su vendedor o expendedor un artículo comprado, con la expectativa de obtener reintegro del valor de la compra.
- 5Rechazar un trabajo o encargo por no llenar las expectativas.
- 6Entregar el dinero sobrante a quien ha hecho un pago.
- 7Expulsar por la boca lo contenido en el estómago.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddevolver,debolber,deovlver,devlover,devolevr,devollver,devolverr,devolvre,devolvver,devovler,devvolver,dveolver,edvolver
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for devolver
Misspelling Variants of "devolver"
Frequency rank: #5,492 in Spanish
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