díasvsdietasWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

“días” and “dietas” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#158
“días” frequency rank
#14,341
“dietas” frequency rank
14499
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature días dietas
Definition Forma del plural de día. Estipendio que se da a los que ejecutan algunas comisiones o encargos por cada día que se ocupan en ellos, o por el tiempo que emplean en realizarlos.

Where the eye mixes días and dietas

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

4 ch
días
6 ch
dietas

Look-alike desk: días vs dietas

A purely visual mix-up. días ([ˈd̪ias]) and dietas ([ˈd̪jet̪as]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14499, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

días is recorded at frequency rank #158, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈd̪ias]. dietas is at rank #14,341, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈd̪jet̪as].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 14499, this pair ranks #283,884 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of días vs dietas

Shared letters: ads. Private to "días": í. Private to "dietas": eit.

"días" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "dietas" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • dietasddietas · deitas · dieats · dietass · dietsa · diettas · diteas · idetas

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "días" for "dietas" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([ˈd̪ias] versus [ˈd̪jet̪as]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "días" or "dietas"?
"días" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #158 in our Spanish list, against #14,341 for "dietas". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Eye-level mix-up between "días" and "dietas" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "días" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "dietas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #283,884 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "días" and "dietas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dietas vs dimas". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #283,884 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list