duda
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#656
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
duda is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de dudar. Dificultad para elegir entre dos o más opciones, o suspensión de tal decisión. Pronounced [ˈd̪uð̞a]. It ranks #656 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with DVD and dúo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duda |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈd̪uð̞a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for duda is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪uð̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #656 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for duda, with forms such as "ddua", "dduda", and "duad". 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, "DVD", "dúo", "due", 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 duda, spelled D-U-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de dudar. Dificultad para elegir entre dos o más opciones, o suspensión de tal decisión.
- 2Proceso y resultado de vacilar respecto a lo que se cree o en lo que se confía.
- 3Tema o asunto que se propone para discutirlo o debatirlo.
- 4Dicho de un asunto, que es confuso o poco claro.
- 5Información o dato cuya certeza está en entredicho.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddua,dduda,duad,dudda,udda
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for duda
Misspelling Variants of "duda"
Frequency rank: #656 in Spanish
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