dilema
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,317
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
dilema is aSpanishnoun. It means: Situación en la que es necesario elegir entre dos opciones diferentes, a menudo contradictorias entre sí. Pronounced [d̪iˈlema]. Often confused with diles and diseña.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dilema |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪iˈlema] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dilema is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪iˈlema]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,317 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dilema, with forms such as "ddilema", "dielma", and "dileam". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "diles", "diseña", "dolerá", 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 dilema, spelled D-I-L-E-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Situación en la que es necesario elegir entre dos opciones diferentes, a menudo contradictorias entre sí.
- 2Estrategia argumentativa que propone dos ideas opuestas y, al elegir cualquiera de las dos, se prueba lo que inicialmente se quería demostrar.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddilema,dielma,dileam,dilemma,dillema,dilmea,dliema,idlema
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dilema
Misspelling Variants of "dilema"
Frequency rank: #10,317 in Spanish
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