nadie

/[ˈnað̞je]/ pron

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#174

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

nadie is aSpanishpron. It means: Ninguna persona. Pronounced [ˈnað̞je]. It ranks #174 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with nie and nde.

Key facts for nadie
PropertyValue
Headwordnadie
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPron
IPA[ˈnað̞je]
Letters5
Frequency rank#174
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of nadie in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for nadie is 5 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnað̞je]. Corpus data places it at rank #174 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ninguna persona.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for nadie, with forms such as "andie", "naddie", and "nadei". 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, "nie", "nde", "nai", 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 nadie, spelled N-A-D-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ninguna persona.

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: andie,naddie,nadei,naide,ndaie,nnadie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nadie

Misspelling Variants of "nadie"

andie5naddie6nadei5naide5ndaie5nnadie6
Misspelling Variants of "nadie"

Frequency rank: #174 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "nadie"?
"nadie" is spelled N-A-D-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈnað̞je].
What does "nadie" mean?
As a pron, "nadie" means: Ninguna persona.
What words are commonly confused with "nadie"?
"nadie" is commonly confused with "nie", "nde", "nai". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "nadie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nadie" is [ˈnað̞je]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nadie" come from?
"nadie" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter N in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.