dela
/ˈde.la/
The verdict
“dela” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,645) as a contraction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,645
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contracción de la preposición de y el artículo la
Corpus desk
Index ES-dela · dela · Spanish
dela · rank #20,645 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,645
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH deformación
Nearest frequency peer: deformación (-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 “dela”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- decidiera
decidiera
79,359 corpus weight
- decorar
decorar
79,358 corpus weight
- deformación
deformación
79,357 corpus weight
- dela
dela
79,356 corpus weight
- depredadores
depredadores
79,355 corpus weight
- derrotados
derrotados
79,354 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “dela” 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 | dela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| IPA | /ˈde.la/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “dela”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dela is neighbouring look-alikes ("día", "den", …), not just typos; it is acontraction pronounced /ˈde.la/. Frequency #20,645 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Contracción de la preposición de y el artículo la".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for dela, with forms such as "ddela", "dlea", and "edla". 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, "día", "den", "der", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is dela, spelled D-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Contracción de la preposición de y el artículo la
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddela
- dlea
- edla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dela - 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 "dela", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).