deletrear
[d̪elet̪ɾeˈaɾ]
The verdict
“deletrear” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,643 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,643
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronunciar separadamente las letras de cada sílaba, las sílabas de cada palabra y luego la palabra entera; v. gr., b, o, bo, c, a, ca; boca.
Corpus desk
Index ES-deletrear · deletrear · Spanish
deletrear · rank #67,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,643
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH decimonónico
Nearest frequency peer: decimonónico (-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 “deletrear”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- decepcionar…
decepcionaron
32,362 corpus weight
- decepcioné
decepcioné
32,361 corpus weight
- decimonónico
decimonónico
32,360 corpus weight
- deletrear
deletrear
32,358 corpus weight
- demorarse
demorarse
32,356 corpus weight
- demostré
demostré
32,355 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “deletrear” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deletrear |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪elet̪ɾeˈaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “deletrear” en español
Rare enough to double-check
deletrear is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,643 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [d̪elet̪ɾeˈaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pronunciar separadamente las letras de cada sílaba, las sílabas de cada palabra y luego la palabra entera; v. gr., b, o, bo, c, a, ca; boca.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for deletrear, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is deletrear, spelled D-E-L-E-T-R-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1Pronunciar separadamente las letras de cada sílaba, las sílabas de cada palabra y luego la palabra entera; v. gr., b, o, bo, c, a, ca; boca.
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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