indirecto
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,770
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
indirecto is anSpanishadj. It means: Que no es directo. Pronounced [ĩn̪d̪iˈɾekt̪o]. Often confused with indirecta and indirectas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | indirecto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ĩn̪d̪iˈɾekt̪o] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for indirecto is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩn̪d̪iˈɾekt̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,770 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for indirecto, with forms such as "idnirecto", "inddirecto", and "indiercto". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "indirecta", "indirectas", 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 indirecto, spelled I-N-D-I-R-E-C-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que no es directo.
- 2Que no va hacia un fin de forma clara o evidente, aunque se encamine a él.
- 3Que no es causa inmediata de algo, sino secundaria o que actúa a través de otro agente.
- 4Dicho de una demostración o inferencia: que la conclusión se prueba demostrando la incompatibilidad de su negación con las hipótesis o premisas, gracias al principio del tercero excluido. Puede ser mediante el contrarrecíproco o mediante la reducción al absurdo.
- 5Dicho de un tiro libre en donde no es posible anotar un gol al patear sin que intervenga otro compañero de equipo en la jugada.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: idnirecto,inddirecto,indiercto,indirceto,indireccto,indirecot,indirectto,indiretco,indirrecto,indriecto,inidrecto,inndirecto,nidirecto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for indirecto
Misspelling Variants of "indirecto"
Frequency rank: #19,770 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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