idea
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#303
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
idea is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conocimiento elemental que nos hacemos de algo. Pronounced [iˈð̞ea]. It ranks #303 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ie and ido.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [iˈð̞ea] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for idea is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [iˈð̞ea]. Corpus data places it at rank #303 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for idea, with forms such as "diea", "idae", and "iddea". 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, "ie", "ido", "ira", 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 idea, spelled I-D-E-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conocimiento elemental que nos hacemos de algo.
- 2Forma con la que una cosa es representada en la mente humana.
- 3Plan abstracto de alguna acción.
- 4Imaginación, inventiva o ingenio.
- 5Opinión, concepto o noción de algo o alguien.
- 6Forma de considerar o evaluar las cosas, el entorno o el mundo.
- 7Manía, pensamiento o preocupación extravagante.
- 8Actitud negativa de mala voluntad, rechazo y molestia contra alguien o algo.
- 9Conjunto de principios, creencias o convicciones de una doctrina o movimiento, compartidas conscientemente por los grupos sociales adherentes a tales movimientos creando una identidad colectiva.
- 10Intención de hacer algo.
- 11Objeto ideal; objeto eterno y perfecto del cual los objetos materiales son sólo representaciones imperfectas y fugaces. Postulado inicialmente en el platonismo.
- 12Resultado o expresión de una idea, objeto de protección por el derecho de autor. No existen derechos de autor sobre las ideas entendidas como las demás acepciones.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: diea,idae,iddea,ieda
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for idea
Misspelling Variants of "idea"
Frequency rank: #303 in Spanish
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Other entries that begin with the letter I in our Spanish index: