dron
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,001
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dron is aSpanishnoun. It means: Aeronave que vuela sin tripulación humana a bordo, también conocida en español como vehículo aéreo no tripulado (VANT), o sistema aéreo no tripulado (UAS, por siglas en inglés de Unmanned Aerial Sy... Pronounced [ˈd̪ɾõn]. Often confused with dúo and dry.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dron |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈd̪ɾõn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dron is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪ɾõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,001 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Aeronave que vuela sin tripulación humana a bordo, también conocida en español como vehículo aéreo no tripulado (VANT), o sistema aéreo no tripulado (UAS, por siglas en inglés de Unmanned Aerial Sy...".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for dron, with forms such as "ddron", "dorn", and "drno". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dúo", "dry", "duro", 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 dron, spelled D-R-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aeronave que vuela sin tripulación humana a bordo, también conocida en español como vehículo aéreo no tripulado (VANT), o sistema aéreo no tripulado (UAS, por siglas en inglés de Unmanned Aerial System), o UAV (por Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddron,dorn,drno,dronn,drron,rdon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dron
Misspelling Variants of "dron"
Frequency rank: #20,001 in Spanish
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