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dialecto

Spanish, noun/djaˈleɡto/

dialecto is spelled D-I-A-L-E-C-T-O (8 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 12,318th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dialecto is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “dialect” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Variación de una lengua que se distingue de otras variaciones por su fonología, gramática, o vocabulario, y…”.

What does dialecto mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinedialect

  2. 2

    colloquialmasculineNative American language

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Variación de una lengua que se distingue de otras variaciones por su fonología, gramática, o vocabulario, y por su uso en un grupo de hablantes determinado por una zona geográfica o un grupo social. 2. Una lengua considerada como parte de un grupo que tiene un antepasado común.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of dialecto

  • dialectos plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce dialecto?

  • /djaˈleɡto/
  • [d̪jaˈleɣ̞.t̪o]
  • [d̪jaˈlekt̪o]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to dialecto

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is dialecto in Spanish?

dialecto appears 4.8 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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