compañía

/[kõmpaˈɲia]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#705

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

compañía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acto o consecuencia de acompañar o acompañarse; de estar, ser o existir junto a otro u otros. Pronounced [kõmpaˈɲia]. It ranks #705 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with company and comparta.

Key facts for compañía
PropertyValue
Headwordcompañía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kõmpaˈɲia]
Letters8
Frequency rank#705
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for compañía is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõmpaˈɲia]. Corpus data places it at rank #705 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for compañía, with forms such as "ccompañía", "cmopañía", and "comapñía". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "company", "comparta", "compensa", 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 compañía, spelled C-O-M-P-A-Ñ-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acto o consecuencia de acompañar o acompañarse; de estar, ser o existir junto a otro u otros.
  2. 2
    Persona o personas que siguen a otra u otras.
  3. 3
    Asociación o sociedad de varias personas unidas por un mismo objetivo, generalmente de negocios.
  4. 4
    Unidad militar, comandada generalmente por un capitán.
  5. 5
    Agrupación de actores teatrales o de bailarines.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccompañía,cmopañía,comapñía,commpañía,compaíña,compañaí,comppañía,compñaía,copmañía,ocmpañía

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for compañía

Misspelling Variants of "compañía"

ccompañía9cmopañía8comapñía8commpañía9compaíña8compañaí8comppañía9compñaía8
Misspelling Variants of "compañía"

Frequency rank: #705 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "compañía"?
"compañía" is spelled C-O-M-P-A-Ñ-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kõmpaˈɲia].
What does "compañía" mean?
As a noun, "compañía" means: Acto o consecuencia de acompañar o acompañarse; de estar, ser o existir junto a otro u otros.
What words are commonly confused with "compañía"?
"compañía" is commonly confused with "company", "comparta", "compensa". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "compañía"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "compañía" is [kõmpaˈɲia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "compañía" come from?
"compañía" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.