autoridad

/[awt̪oɾiˈð̞að̞]/ noun

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.

Key facts for autoridad
PropertyValue
Headwordautoridad
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[awt̪oɾiˈð̞að̞]
Letters9
Frequency rank#1,537
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Carácter o representación de una persona por su empleo, mérito o nacimiento.
  2. 2
    Potestad, facultad.
  3. 3
    Potestad que en cada pueblo ha establecido su constitución para que le rija y gobierne, ya dictando leyes, ya haciéndolas observar, ya administrando justicia.
  4. 4
    Persona revestida de algún poder, mando o magistratura.
  5. 5
    Crédito y fe que, por su mérito y fama, se da a una persona o cosa en determinada materia.
  6. 6
    Ostentación, fausto, aparato.
  7. 7
    Texto, expresión o conjunto de expresiones de un libro o escrito, que se citan o alegan en apoyo de lo que se dice.
  8. 8
    Poder 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"

atuoridad9auotridad9autoirdad9autordiad9autoriadd9autoridadd10autoridda9autoriddad10
Misspelling Variants of "autoridad"

Frequency rank: #1,537 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "autoridad"?
"autoridad" is spelled A-U-T-O-R-I-D-A-D. The IPA pronunciation is [awt̪oɾiˈð̞að̞].
What does "autoridad" mean?
As a noun, "autoridad" means: Carácter o representación de una persona por su empleo, mérito o nacimiento.
What words are commonly confused with "autoridad"?
"autoridad" is commonly confused with "autoriza", "autorizar", "autorizan". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "autoridad"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "autoridad" is [awt̪oɾiˈð̞að̞]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "autoridad" come from?
"autoridad" 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.