ausencia

/[awˈsẽnsja]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,438

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

ausencia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de ausentarse o de estar ausente. Pronounced [awˈsẽnsja]. It ranks #2,438 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ausencias and agencia.

Key facts for ausencia
PropertyValue
Headwordausencia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[awˈsẽnsja]
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,438
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ausencia is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [awˈsẽnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,438 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for ausencia, with forms such as "asuencia", "aucencia", and "auesncia". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "ausencias", "agencia", "audiencia", 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 ausencia, spelled A-U-S-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
    Acción o efecto de ausentarse o de estar ausente.
  2. 2
    La acción o efecto de no estar aquí y ahora o en el sitio o lugar especificado;
  3. 3
    La carencia o privación de algo.
  4. 4
    Lapso en que una persona pierde la conciencia.
  5. 5
    La ausencia, en cuanto a término Jurídico, se refiere a la situación jurídica frente al Derecho de aquellas personas de las que no se tiene noticia certera de su paradero, ni prueba de vida. Ante el Derecho, estas personas no están ni muertas ni vivas, mantiéndose la incertidumbre hasta prueba fidedigna de su condición.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: asuencia,aucencia,auesncia,ausecnia,ausencai,ausenccia,ausenica,ausenncia,ausensia,ausnecia,aussencia,uasencia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ausencia

Misspelling Variants of "ausencia"

asuencia8aucencia8auesncia8ausecnia8ausencai8ausenccia9ausenica8ausenncia9
Misspelling Variants of "ausencia"

Frequency rank: #2,438 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

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