ansía
[ãnˈsia]
The verdict
“ansía” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #56,800 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #56,800
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ansiar o de ansiarse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ansía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ãnˈsia] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ansía” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ansía is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ãnˈsia]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,800 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for ansía in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is ansía, spelled A-N-S-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ansiar o de ansiarse.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de ansiar.
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 “ansía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-N-S-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ãnˈsia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- 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.