del
[d̪el]
The verdict
“del” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14) as a contraction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contracción de la preposición de y el artículo el.
Corpus desk
Index ES-del · del · Spanish
del · rank #14 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #14
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH las
Nearest frequency peer: las (+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 “del”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- un
un
99,991 corpus weight
- se
se
99,990 corpus weight
- por
por
99,989 corpus weight
- del
del
99,987 corpus weight
- las
las
99,986 corpus weight
- con
con
99,985 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “del” 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 | del |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| IPA | [d̪el] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “del”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for del is neighbouring look-alikes ("di", "do", …), not just typos; it is acontraction pronounced [d̪el]. Frequency #14 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Contracción de la preposición de y el artículo el.".
Zero misspellings are on record for del in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "di", "do", "du", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is del, spelled D-E-L.
Definition
- 1Contracción de la preposición de y el artículo el.
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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