difícil

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for difícil is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪iˈfisil]. Corpus data places it at rank #480 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Duro, costoso, complicado, no fácil, que requiere mucho trabajo o esfuerzo para poder realizarse.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for difícil, with forms such as "ddifícil", "dfiícil", and "difcíil". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "difíciles", "déficit", 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 difícil, spelled D-I-F-Í-C-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.