diagonal

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for diagonal is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪jaɣ̞oˈnal]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,559 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Recta que une un vértice de un polígono o de un poliedro con otro vértice no consecutivo. Informalmente, recta inclinada con respecto a otras paralelas.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for diagonal, with forms such as "daigonal", "ddiagonal", and "diaggonal". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "diagonales", 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 diagonal, spelled D-I-A-G-O-N-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.