dad
[ˈd̪að̞]
The verdict
“dad” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #18,501 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #18,501
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Segunda persona del plural (vosotros, vosotras) del imperativo afirmativo de dar.
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 | dad |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈd̪að̞] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dad” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dad is 3 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪að̞]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,501 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Segunda persona del plural (vosotros, vosotras) del imperativo afirmativo de dar.".
dad has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "de", "di", "do", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is dad, spelled D-A-D.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del plural (vosotros, vosotras) del imperativo afirmativo de dar.
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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Using “dad”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-A-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈd̪að̞] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “de” - see the side-by-side comparison. dad vs de
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.