deir
[ˈdɛjr]
The verdict
“deir” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,473) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,473
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mutación suave del adjetivo numeral cardinal femenino teir ('tres')
Corpus desk
Index ES-deir · deir · Spanish
deir · rank #46,473 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,473
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH deformidad
Nearest frequency peer: deformidad (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “deir”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- dedicará
dedicará
53,531 corpus weight
- defendamos
defendamos
53,530 corpus weight
- deformidad
deformidad
53,529 corpus weight
- deir
deir
53,528 corpus weight
- delirando
delirando
53,527 corpus weight
- demostraban
demostraban
53,526 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “deir” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | deir |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈdɛjr] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “deir”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for deir is neighbouring look-alikes ("di", "del", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈdɛjr]. Frequency #46,473 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Mutación suave del adjetivo numeral cardinal femenino teir ('tres')".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for deir, with forms such as "ddeir", "deirr", and "deri". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "di", "del", "día", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is deir, spelled D-E-I-R.
Definition
- 1Mutación suave del adjetivo numeral cardinal femenino teir ('tres')
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddeir
- deirr
- deri
- edir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of deir - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "deir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).