DVD
[d̪eβ̞eˈð̞e]
The verdict
“DVD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,846) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,846
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disco Versátil Digital.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dvd · DVD · Spanish
DVD · rank #7,846 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,846
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH diputación
Nearest frequency peer: diputación (-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 “DVD”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- desarrollada
desarrollada
92,158 corpus weight
- descansa
descansa
92,157 corpus weight
- diputación
diputación
92,156 corpus weight
- DVD
DVD
92,155 corpus weight
- educativas
educativas
92,153 corpus weight
- ejerce
ejerce
92,152 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “DVD” 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 | DVD |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [d̪eβ̞eˈð̞e] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “DVD”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DVD is neighbouring look-alikes ("d", "de", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [d̪eβ̞eˈð̞e]. Frequency #7,846 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Disco Versátil Digital.".
Zero misspellings are on record for DVD in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "d", "de", "da", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is DVD, spelled D-V-D.
Definition
- 1Disco Versátil Digital.
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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