Spanish Conversation · Level 58
74 words
Spanish word
deletrear
Pronunciation
IPA/deletɾeˈaɾ/
Meaning
- verbspell
Example
¿Puedes deletrear tu nombre?
Can you spell your name?
More examples
Perdón, ¿puedes deletrear la dirección, por favor?
Excuse me, can you spell the address, please?
Core concept
Saying a word's letters aloud in order.
Common phrases
deletrear una palabra
spell a word
deletrear tu nombre
spell your name
deletrear la dirección
spell the address
Similar words
soletrar: Voicing each letter of a word one by one to make its spelling clear.
pronunciar: Producing a word's sounds correctly with proper articulation and stress.
Definition in Spanish
Decir, letra por letra, la secuencia de caracteres de una palabra para indicar su escritura correcta.
Word origin
From Spanish letra (from Latin littera) plus the verbal suffix -ear, the verb literally means 'to name letters' and thus 'to spell'.
Usage tips
- English speakers sometimes mistake deletrear for delete, but deletrear means to spell letters aloud while delete corresponds to borrar or eliminar in Spanish.
Other meanings
- spell aloudverb
Opposites
- pronunciarpronounceverb
Related words
- deletreospellingnoun
- deletreablespellableadjective