dédalo
[ˈd̪eð̞alo]
The verdict
“dédalo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #60,750 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,750
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Circuito complejo de pasajes y encrucijadas, diseñado de tal manera de dificultar la orientación de quien lo atraviesa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dedalo · dédalo · Spanish
dédalo · rank #60,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,750
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH dormiría
Nearest frequency peer: dormiría (-2 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “dédalo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- dodo
dodo
39,257 corpus weight
- dolería
dolería
39,256 corpus weight
- dolorida
dolorida
39,255 corpus weight
- dormiría
dormiría
39,253 corpus weight
- dédalo
dédalo
39,251 corpus weight
- ECG
ECG
39,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “dédalo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dédalo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈd̪eð̞alo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “dédalo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
dédalo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #60,750 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈd̪eð̞alo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dédalo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 dédalo, spelled D-É-D-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1Circuito complejo de pasajes y encrucijadas, diseñado de tal manera de dificultar la orientación de quien lo atraviesa.
- 2Por extensión, situación o condición compleja, cuyo sentido o solución son difíciles de desentrañar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dédalo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Dejó Michigan-avenue, donde se da cita la riqueza del mundo, e internóse en el dédalo de los barrios en que las calles hieden a intestinos largos y las bocacalles son como anos cuadrados adonde asoman los transeúntes no suficientemente digeridos por la miseria de la vida, pues se les ve desaparecer por otros callejones intestinales y salir a otras calles».
This word in other languages
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
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).