delicious
/dɪˈlɪʃ.əs/
The verdict
“delicious” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #59,929 among 90,663 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,929
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 90,663
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Delicioso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | delicious |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɪˈlɪʃ.əs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “delicious” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
delicious is uncommon Spanish at frequency #59,929 among 90,663 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /dɪˈlɪʃ.əs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Delicioso.".
No misspelling variants are generated for delicious in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is delicious, spelled D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Delicioso.
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 “delicious”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /dɪˈlɪʃ.əs/ (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.