dictadura
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,077
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
dictadura is aSpanishnoun. It means: Forma de gobierno que se concentra en las manos, o de una sola persona (denominada dictador) o de un grupo de personas afines a una ideología o movimiento, los cuales poseen el poder absoluto, cont... Pronounced [d̪ikt̪aˈð̞uɾa]. It ranks #2,077 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with dictará and dictaduras.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dictadura |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪ikt̪aˈð̞uɾa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dictadura is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪ikt̪aˈð̞uɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,077 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for dictadura, with forms such as "dcitadura", "ddictadura", and "dicatdura". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "dictará", "dictaduras", "dictada", 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 dictadura, spelled D-I-C-T-A-D-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forma de gobierno que se concentra en las manos, o de una sola persona (denominada dictador) o de un grupo de personas afines a una ideología o movimiento, los cuales poseen el poder absoluto, controlando los tres poderes del estado: el legislativo, el ejecutivo y el judicial.
- 2Gobierno que asumió su puesto a partir de métodos no democráticos.
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Also misspelled as: dcitadura,ddictadura,dicatdura,dicctadura,dictaddura,dictadrua,dictaduar,dictadurra,dictaudra,dictdaura,dicttadura,ditcadura,idctadura
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Misspelling Variants of "dictadura"
Frequency rank: #2,077 in Spanish
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