det
[də(t)]
The verdict
“det” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,459) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,459
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Él, ella, ello. Caso nominativo, acusativo y dativo del pronombre personal de tercera persona singular de género neutro.
Corpus desk
Index ES-det · det · Spanish
det · rank #35,459 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,459
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH destacamos
Nearest frequency peer: destacamos (-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 “det”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- desperdicia…
desperdiciado
64,545 corpus weight
- despiertes
despiertes
64,544 corpus weight
- destacamos
destacamos
64,543 corpus weight
- det
det
64,542 corpus weight
- deteriorada
deteriorada
64,541 corpus weight
- diabólica
diabólica
64,539 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “det” 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 | det |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [də(t)] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “det”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for det is neighbouring look-alikes ("di", "do", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [də(t)]. Frequency #35,459 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Él, ella, ello. Caso nominativo, acusativo y dativo del pronombre personal de tercera persona singular de género neutro.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for det in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "di", "do", "du", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 det, spelled D-E-T.
Definition
- 1Él, ella, ello. Caso nominativo, acusativo y dativo del pronombre personal de tercera persona singular de género neutro.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).