demonio
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,602
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
demonio is aSpanishnoun. It means: En la religión Católica, diablo o ángel rebelde. Pronounced [d̪eˈmonjo]. It ranks #5,602 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with dominio and demonios.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | demonio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪eˈmonjo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for demonio is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eˈmonjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,602 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for demonio, with forms such as "ddemonio", "demmonio", and "demnoio". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "dominio", "demonios", "demon", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is demonio, spelled D-E-M-O-N-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En la religión Católica, diablo o ángel rebelde.
- 2En la mitología griega, divinidad tutelar o espíritu intermediario entre los dioses olímpicos y los humanos. Estos no poseían una connotación negativa..
- 3Espíritu maligno.
- 4Trastorno obsesivo.
- 5Persona muy virtuosa, habilidosa o de gran destreza para algún oficio.
- 6Persona de gran picardía.
- 7Procesos que corren en segundo plano dentro del sistema operativo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddemonio,demmonio,demnoio,demoino,demonnio,demonoi,deomnio,dmeonio,edmonio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for demonio
Misspelling Variants of "demonio"
Frequency rank: #5,602 in Spanish
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