menospreciar
[menospɾeˈsjaɾ]
The verdict
“menospreciar” has 19 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #29,294. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,294
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Considerar indigno o inferior; no dar el aprecio o valor que se merece algo o a alguien.
Corpus desk
Index ES-menospreciar · menospreciar · Spanish
menospreciar · rank #29,294 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #29,294
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH metimos
Nearest frequency peer: metimos (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “menospreciar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- manejada
manejada
70,712 corpus weight
- Maru
Maru
70,710 corpus weight
- menospreciar
menospreciar
70,707 corpus weight
- metimos
metimos
70,706 corpus weight
- milk
milk
70,705 corpus weight
- minucioso
minucioso
70,703 corpus weight
What this shows “menospreciar” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | menospreciar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [menospɾeˈsjaɾ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #29,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “menospreciar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around menospreciar (IPA [menospɾeˈsjaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,294 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for menospreciar, with forms such as "emnospreciar", "mennospreciar", and "menopsreciar". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "menosprecio", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 menospreciar, spelled M-E-N-O-S-P-R-E-C-I-A-R.
Definition
- 1Considerar indigno o inferior; no dar el aprecio o valor que se merece algo o a alguien.
- 2Considerar poco digno de atención o consideración, tener a menos, tratar con ostensible indiferencia o desprecio.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emnospreciar
- mennospreciar
- menopsreciar
- menosperciar
- menosppreciar
- menosprceiar
- menosprecair
- menosprecciar
- menospreciarr
- menosprecira
- menospreicar
- menospresiar
- menosprreciar
- menosrpeciar
- menosspreciar
- mensopreciar
- meonspreciar
- mmenospreciar
- mneospreciar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of menospreciar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "menospreciar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).