idiota
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,127
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
idiota is anSpanishadj. It means: Dicho de un ciudadano: que se desentiende de los asuntos de la comunidad porque no participa de lo político o porque vela por sus propios intereses. Pronounced [iˈð̞jot̪a]. It ranks #3,127 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with imita and idiotas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | idiota |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [iˈð̞jot̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for idiota is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [iˈð̞jot̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,127 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for idiota, with forms such as "diiota", "iddiota", and "idioat". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "imita", "idiotas", "idiotez", 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 idiota, spelled I-D-I-O-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho de un ciudadano: que se desentiende de los asuntos de la comunidad porque no participa de lo político o porque vela por sus propios intereses.
- 2Que no tiene instrucción alguna.
- 3Falto de inteligencia o entendimiento.
- 4En particular, que padece idiocia.
- 5Dicho de una cosa, propia de un idiota.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: diiota,iddiota,idioat,idiotta,iditoa,idoita,iidota
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for idiota
Misspelling Variants of "idiota"
Frequency rank: #3,127 in Spanish
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