acacia
[aˈkasja]
The verdict
“acacia” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #45,099 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #45,099
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Acacia) Nombre común para un género de plantas arbóreas y arbustivas de la familia Fabaceae. Contiene alrededor de 1300 especies en el mundo, principalmente en Australia.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acacia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈkasja] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “acacia” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for acacia is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈkasja]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,099 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for acacia, with forms such as "aaccia", "acacai", and "acaccia". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "ataca", "Alicia", "Arabia", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is acacia, spelled A-C-A-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1(Acacia) Nombre común para un género de plantas arbóreas y arbustivas de la familia Fabaceae. Contiene alrededor de 1300 especies en el mundo, principalmente en Australia.
- 2Por analogía, nombre aplicado a dos especies arbóreas semejantes a las anteriores: la falsa acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia) y la acacia de tres espinas (Gleditsia triacanthos), ambas de la familia Fabaceae.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aaccia,acacai,acaccia,acaica,acasia,accacia,accaia,caacia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acacia - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “acacia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-C-A-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aˈkasja] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ataca” - see the side-by-side comparison. acacia vs ataca
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.