chispa
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,636
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
chispa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Partícula encendida que salta por el aire. Puede provenir del fuego, ser ocasionada por el choque o roce de dos cuerpos, como la rueda de un tren sobre un riel, o surgir al frotar un pedernal. Pronounced [ˈt͡ʃispa]. Often confused with chupa and cisma.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chispa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡ʃispa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for chispa is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡ʃispa]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,636 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for chispa, with forms such as "cchispa", "chhispa", and "chipsa". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "chupa", "cisma", "chiva", 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 chispa, spelled C-H-I-S-P-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partícula encendida que salta por el aire. Puede provenir del fuego, ser ocasionada por el choque o roce de dos cuerpos, como la rueda de un tren sobre un riel, o surgir al frotar un pedernal.
- 2Gotita de lluvia o de agua que salta.
- 3Fenómeno luminoso ocasionado por una descarga eléctrica.
- 4Gran vivacidad y alegría.
- 5Corta cantidad o porción de algo.
- 6Ligera ebriedad.
- 7Diamante muy pequeño.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cchispa,chhispa,chipsa,chisap,chisppa,chisspa,chsipa,cihspa,hcispa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "chispa"
Frequency rank: #13,636 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: