diego
/diˈeɪ.ɡoʊ/noun
diego is spelled D-I-E-G-O: 5 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,875th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, diego means “A Spanish-speaker, especially from Latin America” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of diego is diegos.
How many letters and syllables are in diego?
| Letters | 5: D-I-E-G-O |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 23 times per million words; the 3,875th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is diego?
Diego appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,875th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce diego?
- /diˈeɪ.ɡoʊ/
Diego has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Diego.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with diego?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as diego.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: geoid, dogie.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of diego
- diegos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does diego mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangA Spanish-speaker, especially from Latin America.
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of diego (“Spanish speaker”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does diego come from?
From Spanish Diego.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).