agencia
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,005
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
agencia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Profesión o empleo de agente. Pronounced [aˈxẽnsja]. It ranks #2,005 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with agenda and agonía.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | agencia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈxẽnsja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for agencia is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈxẽnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,005 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for agencia, with forms such as "aegncia", "agecnia", and "agencai". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "agenda", "agonía", "agency", 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 agencia, spelled A-G-E-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Profesión o empleo de agente.
- 2Oficina o sede en la que desempeña sus funciones un agente.
- 3En general, empresa que presta servicios de gestión a terceros.
- 4Por extensión, sede o sucursal de una agencia₃.
- 5Institución de la administración pública que ejecuta la gestión de algún servicio.
- 6Establecimiento que presta dinero contra el depósito de bienes materiales como prenda.
- 7Condición de agente activo, por contraposición al paciente o beneficiario, que se expresa en ciertos roles semánticos.
- 8Capacidad de un sujeto para tomar decisiones de forma independiente. Usado especialmente para referirse a los sistemas informáticos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aegncia,agecnia,agencai,agenccia,agenica,agenncia,agensia,aggencia,agnecia,gaencia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for agencia
Misspelling Variants of "agencia"
Frequency rank: #2,005 in Spanish
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