diego

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The English entry for Diego is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /diˈeɪ.ɡoʊ/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,872 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A male given name from Spanish Diego.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Diego, with forms such as "ddiego", "deigo", and "dieggo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dig", "diet", "dies", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish Diego, from an Iberian Didacus, of uncertain origin. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Diego, spelled D-I-E-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.