Cecilia
[seˈsilja]
The verdict
“Cecilia” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,951. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,951
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre de pila de mujer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cecilia · Cecilia · Spanish
Cecilia · rank #9,951 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,951
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH carpeta
Nearest frequency peer: carpeta (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “Cecilia”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- canon
canon
90,053 corpus weight
- Cantabria
Cantabria
90,052 corpus weight
- carpeta
carpeta
90,051 corpus weight
- Cecilia
Cecilia
90,050 corpus weight
- cera
cera
90,049 corpus weight
- cercanía
cercanía
90,048 corpus weight
What this shows “Cecilia” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cecilia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [seˈsilja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Cecilia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Cecilia (IPA [seˈsilja]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,951 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nombre de pila de mujer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Cecilia, with forms such as "ccecilia", "cceilia", and "ceccilia". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Celia", "Cecilio", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is Cecilia, spelled C-E-C-I-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1Nombre de pila de mujer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccecilia
- cceilia
- ceccilia
- ceciila
- cecilai
- cecillia
- cecliia
- ceiclia
- eccilia
- sesilia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Cecilia - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Cecilia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).