día

[ˈd̪ia]

/[ˈd̪ia]/ noun

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The verdict

“día” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #76) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#76
frequency rank, Spanish
4,885
“D” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tiempo que tarda la Tierra en dar una vuelta alrededor de su eje, equivalente a 24 horas.

Corpus desk

Index ES-dia · día · Spanish

día · rank #76 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #76
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,885
  • PHOTO-FINISH tiempo

Nearest frequency peer: tiempo (-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 “día”

Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo

corpus weight

What this shows Las barras sitúan “día” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

día vs do
33% similar
día vs du
33% similar
día vs dj
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for día
PropertyValue
Headworddía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈd̪ia]
Letters3
Frequency rank#76
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “día”

La frecuencia va del puñado de palabras que usamos sin parar (izquierda) a la cola larga que apenas aparece (derecha).díacae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

El eje es logarítmico: cada tick marca unas diez veces menos frecuencia. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “tiempo” (#75), “uno” (#77), “algo” (#74). Entre 4,885 lemas con “D”, “día” va en #76. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for día is neighbouring look-alikes ("do", "du", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈd̪ia]. Frequency #76 among 4,885 “D” headwords. 8 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for día, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "do", "du", "dj", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is día, spelled D-Í-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tiempo que tarda la Tierra en dar una vuelta alrededor de su eje, equivalente a 24 horas.
  2. 2
    Tiempo que tarda cualquier planeta en dar una vuelta alrededor de su eje.
  3. 3
    Periodo que va desde la medianoche hasta la siguiente medianoche.
  4. 4
    Tiempo que dura la claridad diurna.
  5. 5
    Claridad causada por el Sol en la Tierra.
  6. 6
    Estado del clima.
  7. 7
    Fecha señalada de alguna fiesta o conmemoración.
  8. 8
    Época, etapa de la vida.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how día appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. He estado en este lugar por cinco días.
  2. El día de Venus tarda 243 veces el de la Tierra.

Synonyms

día solardía natural

Antonyms

noche

This word in other languages

day(English)jour(Français)Tag(Deutsch)dia(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "día"?
"día" is spelled D-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈd̪ia].
What does "día" mean?
As a noun, "día" means: Tiempo que tarda la Tierra en dar una vuelta alrededor de su eje, equivalente a 24 horas.
What words are commonly confused with "día"?
"día" is commonly confused with "do", "du", "dj". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "día"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "día" is [ˈd̪ia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "día" come from?
"día" is a Spanish word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "día", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list