controversia

/[kõn̪t̪ɾoˈβ̞eɾsja]/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,127

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

20

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

controversia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Discusión reiterada, debate, polémica Pronounced [kõn̪t̪ɾoˈβ̞eɾsja]. It ranks #7,127 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with controversias and controversial.

Key facts for controversia
PropertyValue
Headwordcontroversia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kõn̪t̪ɾoˈβ̞eɾsja]
Letters12
Frequency rank#7,127
Misspellings tracked20
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for controversia is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõn̪t̪ɾoˈβ̞eɾsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,127 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Discusión reiterada, debate, polémica".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for controversia, with forms such as "ccontroversia", "cnotroversia", and "conntroversia". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "controversias", "controversial", "controvertida", 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 controversia, spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-V-E-R-S-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Discusión reiterada, debate, polémica

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ccontroversia,cnotroversia,conntroversia,conrtoversia,contorversia,controbersia,controevrsia,controvercia,controverisa,controverrsia,controversai,controverssia,controvesria,controvresia,controvversia,contrroversia,contrvoersia,conttroversia,cotnroversia,ocntroversia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for controversia

Misspelling Variants of "controversia"

ccontroversia13cnotroversia12conntroversia13conrtoversia12contorversia12controbersia12controevrsia12controvercia12
Misspelling Variants of "controversia"

Frequency rank: #7,127 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "controversia"?
"controversia" is spelled C-O-N-T-R-O-V-E-R-S-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [kõn̪t̪ɾoˈβ̞eɾsja].
What does "controversia" mean?
As a noun, "controversia" means: Discusión reiterada, debate, polémica
What words are commonly confused with "controversia"?
"controversia" is commonly confused with "controversias", "controversial", "controvertida". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "controversia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "controversia" is [kõn̪t̪ɾoˈβ̞eɾsja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "controversia" come from?
"controversia" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.