dialecto
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,362
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
dialecto is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced [d̪jaˈlekt̪o]. Often confused with directo and dialectos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dialecto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪jaˈlekt̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dialecto is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪jaˈlekt̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,362 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for dialecto, with forms such as "dailecto", "ddialecto", and "diaelcto". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "directo", "dialectos", "dialéctico", 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 dialecto, spelled D-I-A-L-E-C-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variación 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.
- 2Una lengua considerada como parte de un grupo que tiene un antepasado común.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dailecto,ddialecto,diaelcto,dialceto,dialeccto,dialecot,dialectto,dialetco,diallecto,dilaecto,idalecto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dialecto
Misspelling Variants of "dialecto"
Frequency rank: #12,362 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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