secret

//sə.kʁɛ// adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#19,876

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

secret is anSpanishadj. It means: Secreto. Pronounced /sə.kʁɛ/. Often confused with Sere and seres.

Key facts for secret
PropertyValue
Headwordsecret
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA/sə.kʁɛ/
Letters6
Frequency rank#19,876
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for secret is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sə.kʁɛ/. Corpus data places it at rank #19,876 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Secreto.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for secret, with forms such as "cecret", "escret", and "sceret". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Sere", "seres", "Sucre", 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 secret, spelled S-E-C-R-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Secreto.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cecret,escret,sceret,seccret,secert,secrett,secrret,secrte,sercet,ssecret

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for secret

Misspelling Variants of "secret"

cecret6escret6sceret6seccret7secert6secrett7secrret7secrte6
Misspelling Variants of "secret"

Frequency rank: #19,876 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "secret"?
"secret" is spelled S-E-C-R-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is /sə.kʁɛ/.
What does "secret" mean?
As an adj, "secret" means: Secreto.
What words are commonly confused with "secret"?
"secret" is commonly confused with "Sere", "seres", "Sucre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "secret"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "secret" is /sə.kʁɛ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "secret" come from?
"secret" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.