dio
[ˈd̪jo]
The verdict
“dio” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #481) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #481
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de dar o de darse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dio · dio · Spanish
dio · rank #481 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #481
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH difícil
Nearest frequency peer: difícil (-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 “dio”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- cultura
cultura
99,523 corpus weight
- debido
debido
99,522 corpus weight
- difícil
difícil
99,521 corpus weight
- dio
dio
99,520 corpus weight
- estaban
estaban
99,519 corpus weight
- fotos
fotos
99,518 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “dio” 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 | dio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈd̪jo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “dio”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dio is neighbouring look-alikes ("do", "du", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈd̪jo]. Frequency #481 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de dar o de darse.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dio, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is dio, spelled D-I-O.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de dar o de darse.
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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