dictador
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,605
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
dictador is aSpanishnoun. It means: Originalmente, un magistrado sin colega en la antigua Roma republicana, que tenía plena autoridad ejecutiva para un mandato otorgado por el Senado (poder legislativo), por lo general para llevar a ... Pronounced [d̪ikt̪aˈð̞oɾ]. It ranks #5,605 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with dictar and dictados.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dictador |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪ikt̪aˈð̞oɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dictador is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪ikt̪aˈð̞oɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,605 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for dictador, with forms such as "dcitador", "ddictador", and "dicatdor". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "dictar", "dictados", "dictando", and more, 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 dictador, spelled D-I-C-T-A-D-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Originalmente, un magistrado sin colega en la antigua Roma republicana, que tenía plena autoridad ejecutiva para un mandato otorgado por el Senado (poder legislativo), por lo general para llevar a cabo una guerra.
- 2Un líder no democrático de un país, una nación o gobierno.
- 3Un jefe o figura de autoridad tiránicos
- 4Una regidor o Führer, el más alto nivel de autoridad.
- 5(anticuado) Una persona que dicta el texto (por ejemplo, cartas a un empleado o un ordenador o tableta).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: dcitador,ddictador,dicatdor,dicctador,dictaddor,dictadorr,dictadro,dictaodr,dictdaor,dicttador,ditcador,idctador
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dictador
Misspelling Variants of "dictador"
Frequency rank: #5,605 in Spanish
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