-idad
[iˈð̞að̞]
The verdict
“-idad” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante de -dad. Suele aparecer cuando el adjetivo tiene más de dos sílabas o termina en consonante.
Corpus desk
Index ES-idad · -idad · Spanish
-idad · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -idad |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | [iˈð̞að̞] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “-idad” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
-idad is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix, transcribed [iˈð̞að̞]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de -dad. Suele aparecer cuando el adjetivo tiene más de dos sílabas o termina en consonante.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for -idad, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is -idad, spelled --I-D-A-D.
Definition
- 1Variante de -dad. Suele aparecer cuando el adjetivo tiene más de dos sílabas o termina en consonante.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.