directo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,372
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
directo is anSpanishadj. It means: Derecho o en línea recta. Pronounced [d̪iˈɾekt̪o]. It ranks #1,372 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with director and directos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | directo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [d̪iˈɾekt̪o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for directo is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪iˈɾekt̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,372 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for directo, with forms such as "ddirecto", "diercto", and "dirceto". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "director", "directos", "directora", 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 directo, spelled D-I-R-E-C-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Derecho o en línea recta.
- 2Que es una forma clara, rápida o evidente de llegar hacia un fin.
- 3Que es la causa más inmediata o próxima de un fenómeno.
- 4Verdadero, genuino.
- 5Dicho de una persona, que no tiene reparos ni tacto para decir las cosas y puede llegar a ser crudo.
- 6Dicho de una demostración o inferencia: que se prueba por la simple demostración de verdad de cada una de las afirmaciones, sin necesidad de introducir supuestos que nieguen la conclusión.
- 7Dicho de un tiro libre en donde es posible anotar un gol al patear sin necesidad de que intervenga otro compañero de equipo en la jugada.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddirecto,diercto,dirceto,direccto,direcot,directto,diretco,dirrecto,driecto,idrecto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for directo
Misspelling Variants of "directo"
Frequency rank: #1,372 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Spanish index: