autoridad
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,537
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
autoridad is aSpanishnoun. It means: Carácter o representación de una persona por su empleo, mérito o nacimiento. Pronounced [awt̪oɾiˈð̞að̞]. It ranks #1,537 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with autoriza and autorizar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autoridad |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [awt̪oɾiˈð̞að̞] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for autoridad is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [awt̪oɾiˈð̞að̞]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,537 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 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for autoridad, with forms such as "atuoridad", "auotridad", and "autoirdad". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "autoriza", "autorizar", "autorizan", 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 autoridad, spelled A-U-T-O-R-I-D-A-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Carácter o representación de una persona por su empleo, mérito o nacimiento.
- 2Potestad, facultad.
- 3Potestad que en cada pueblo ha establecido su constitución para que le rija y gobierne, ya dictando leyes, ya haciéndolas observar, ya administrando justicia.
- 4Persona revestida de algún poder, mando o magistratura.
- 5Crédito y fe que, por su mérito y fama, se da a una persona o cosa en determinada materia.
- 6Ostentación, fausto, aparato.
- 7Texto, expresión o conjunto de expresiones de un libro o escrito, que se citan o alegan en apoyo de lo que se dice.
- 8Poder que tiene una persona sobre otra que le está subordinada; como el del padre sobre los hijos, el del tutor sobre el pupilo, el del superior sobre los inferiores.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atuoridad,auotridad,autoirdad,autordiad,autoriadd,autoridadd,autoridda,autoriddad,autorridad,autroidad,auttoridad,uatoridad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for autoridad
Misspelling Variants of "autoridad"
Frequency rank: #1,537 in Spanish
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