calumnia
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,918
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
calumnia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mentira que se divulga para dañar. Pronounced [kaˈlũmnja]. Often confused with columna and Columbia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | calumnia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈlũmnja] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for calumnia is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaˈlũmnja]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,918 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.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for calumnia, with forms such as "aclumnia", "callumnia", and "calmunia". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "columna", "Columbia", "calumnias", 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 calumnia, spelled C-A-L-U-M-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mentira que se divulga para dañar.
- 2Imputación de un crimen con objeto de causar daño a alguien y con conciencia de falsedad de hechas acusaciones.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aclumnia,callumnia,calmunia,calumina,calummnia,calumnai,calumnnia,calunmia,caulmnia,ccalumnia,claumnia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for calumnia
Misspelling Variants of "calumnia"
Frequency rank: #20,918 in Spanish
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