dread
/dɹɛd/
The verdict
“dread” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #75,374 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,374
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terror.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dread · dread · Spanish
dread · rank #75,374 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,374
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH domiciliada
Nearest frequency peer: domiciliada (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “dread”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- doctors
doctors
24,630 corpus weight
- dolmen
dolmen
24,629 corpus weight
- domiciliada
domiciliada
24,628 corpus weight
- dread
dread
24,627 corpus weight
- drenado
drenado
24,626 corpus weight
- drunk
drunk
24,625 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “dread” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dread |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɹɛd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “dread” en español
Rare enough to double-check
dread is uncommon Spanish at frequency #75,374 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɹɛd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Terror.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dread in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is dread, spelled D-R-E-A-D.
Definition
- 1Terror.
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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