disquete
[d̪isˈket̪e]
The verdict
“disquete” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #70,199 among 90,663 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,199
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 90,663
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Soporte portátil de almacenamiento de información digital, compuesto por un disco magnético flexible dentro de una carcasa con forma cuadrangular, hecha de plástico.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disquete |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪isˈket̪e] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “disquete” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
disquete is uncommon Spanish at frequency #70,199 among 90,663 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [d̪isˈket̪e]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Soporte portátil de almacenamiento de información digital, compuesto por un disco magnético flexible dentro de una carcasa con forma cuadrangular, hecha de plástico.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for disquete, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is disquete, spelled D-I-S-Q-U-E-T-E.
Definition
- 1Soporte portátil de almacenamiento de información digital, compuesto por un disco magnético flexible dentro de una carcasa con forma cuadrangular, hecha de plástico.
This word in other languages
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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Using “disquete”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-I-S-Q-U-E-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [d̪isˈket̪e] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.