dry
/dɹaɪ/
The verdict
“dry” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,072) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,072
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Seco.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dry · dry · Spanish
dry · rank #38,072 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,072
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH dramaturgia
Nearest frequency peer: dramaturgia (-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 “dry”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- doblegar
doblegar
61,932 corpus weight
- Donato
Donato
61,931 corpus weight
- dramaturgia
dramaturgia
61,930 corpus weight
- dry
dry
61,929 corpus weight
- duodécimo
duodécimo
61,928 corpus weight
- duplicación
duplicación
61,927 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “dry” 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 | dry |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɹaɪ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “dry”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dry is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "DVD", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /dɹaɪ/. Frequency #38,072 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Seco.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dry in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "DVD", "dúo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is dry, spelled D-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Seco.
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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