competencia
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,440
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
competencia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Rivalidad o controversia que hay entre dos o más personas u organismos sobre algún punto. Ej. (organismos): Estas dos plantas están estableciendo una competencia por la luz. Pronounced [kõmpeˈt̪ẽnsja]. It ranks #1,440 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with competencias.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | competencia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõmpeˈt̪ẽnsja] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for competencia is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõmpeˈt̪ẽnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,440 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for competencia, with forms such as "ccompetencia", "cmopetencia", and "comeptencia". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "competencias", 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 competencia, spelled C-O-M-P-E-T-E-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rivalidad o controversia que hay entre dos o más personas u organismos sobre algún punto. Ej. (organismos): Estas dos plantas están estableciendo una competencia por la luz.
- 2Lucha o riña que existe entre dos o más personas que desean obtener el mismo fin u objetivo.
- 3Dícese acerca del grupo rival. Ej.: Juan ahora es de la competencia y antes era de los nuestros.
- 4Por extensión, situación en que dos o más empresas ofrecen el mismo servicio para lograr el mismo objetivo.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccompetencia,cmopetencia,comeptencia,commpetencia,compeetncia,competecnia,competencai,competenccia,competenica,competenncia,competensia,competnecia,compettencia,comppetencia,compteencia,copmetencia,ocmpetencia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for competencia
Misspelling Variants of "competencia"
Frequency rank: #1,440 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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