deletrear
[d̪elet̪ɾeˈaɾ]
The verdict
“deletrear” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #67,643 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #67,643
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “deletrear” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for deletrear is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪elet̪ɾeˈaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #67,643 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “deletrear”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-E-L-E-T-R-E-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [d̪elet̪ɾeˈaɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.