die
[di(:)]
The verdict
“die” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,315) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,315
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma de nominativo singular del artículo determinado femenino.
Corpus desk
Index ES-die · die · Spanish
die · rank #10,315 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,315
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH devolución
Nearest frequency peer: devolución (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “die”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- desayunar
desayunar
89,689 corpus weight
- despedir
despedir
89,688 corpus weight
- devolución
devolución
89,687 corpus weight
- die
die
89,686 corpus weight
- dieran
dieran
89,685 corpus weight
- dilema
dilema
89,684 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “die” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | die |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | [di(:)] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “die”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for die is neighbouring look-alikes ("do", "du", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced [di(:)]. Frequency #10,315 among 4,885 “D” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for die, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "do", "du", "dj", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is die, spelled D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Forma de nominativo singular del artículo determinado femenino.
- 2Forma de acusativo singular del artículo determinado femenino.
- 3Forma de nominativo plural del artículo determinado
- 4Forma de acusativo plural del artículo determinado
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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