agencia

/[aˈxẽnsja]/ noun

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.

Key facts for agencia
PropertyValue
Headwordagencia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aˈxẽnsja]
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,005
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Profesión o empleo de agente.
  2. 2
    Oficina o sede en la que desempeña sus funciones un agente.
  3. 3
    En general, empresa que presta servicios de gestión a terceros.
  4. 4
    Por extensión, sede o sucursal de una agencia₃.
  5. 5
    Institución de la administración pública que ejecuta la gestión de algún servicio.
  6. 6
    Establecimiento que presta dinero contra el depósito de bienes materiales como prenda.
  7. 7
    Condición de agente activo, por contraposición al paciente o beneficiario, que se expresa en ciertos roles semánticos.
  8. 8
    Capacidad de un sujeto para tomar decisiones de forma independiente. Usado especialmente para referirse a los sistemas informáticos.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

aegncia7agecnia7agencai7agenccia8agenica7agenncia8agensia7aggencia8
Misspelling Variants of "agencia"

Frequency rank: #2,005 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "agencia"?
"agencia" is spelled A-G-E-N-C-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈxẽnsja].
What does "agencia" mean?
As a noun, "agencia" means: Profesión o empleo de agente.
What words are commonly confused with "agencia"?
"agencia" is commonly confused with "agenda", "agonía", "agency". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "agencia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "agencia" is [aˈxẽnsja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "agencia" come from?
"agencia" 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.