disculpa
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,506
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
disculpa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Argumento con el que se intenta negar o quitar importancia a una culpa. Pronounced [d̪isˈkulpa]. It ranks #4,506 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with discuta and disculpe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disculpa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪isˈkulpa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for disculpa is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪isˈkulpa]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,506 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for disculpa, with forms such as "ddisculpa", "dicsulpa", and "discculpa". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "discuta", "disculpe", "disculpo", 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 disculpa, spelled D-I-S-C-U-L-P-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Argumento con el que se intenta negar o quitar importancia a una culpa.
- 2La razón y causa que se da para excusarse.
- 3Pretexto, achaque para cubrir el expediente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddisculpa,dicsulpa,discculpa,disclupa,disculap,discullpa,disculppa,discupla,dissculpa,disuclpa,dsiculpa,idsculpa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for disculpa
Misspelling Variants of "disculpa"
Frequency rank: #4,506 in Spanish
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