diente
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,626
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
diente is aSpanishnoun. It means: Estructura compleja de varias capas de tejido, la más externa de las cuales es de apariencia ósea, que la mayoría de los vertebrados tienen en la mandíbula para ayudar a cortar y triturar la comida... Pronounced [ˈd̪jẽn̪t̪e]. It ranks #9,626 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with dieta and diese.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diente |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈd̪jẽn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for diente is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪jẽn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,626 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 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for diente, with forms such as "ddiente", "deinte", and "dienet". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "dieta", "diese", "digne", 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 diente, spelled D-I-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Estructura compleja de varias capas de tejido, la más externa de las cuales es de apariencia ósea, que la mayoría de los vertebrados tienen en la mandíbula para ayudar a cortar y triturar la comida. En algunas especies están asimismo adaptados para la defensa y la predación. Existen varios tipos de dientes, ajustados a la dieta de la especie, y la fórmula dentaria es una de las claves típicas en la identificación fisiológica de un animal.
- 2Puntas o púas que presentan algunas herramientas y que constituyen su borde funcional para cortar o desempeñar otra actividad.
- 3Protuberancia roma que presentan los engranajes para articularse entre sí.
- 4Reborde de relieve zigzagueante que presentan algunos papeles troquelados tras el corte del troquel.
- 5Eminencia geográfica cuyo perfil recuerda por su agudeza al de un canino.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddiente,deinte,dienet,diennte,dientte,dietne,dinete,idente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for diente
Misspelling Variants of "diente"
Frequency rank: #9,626 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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