defensa
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#763
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
defensa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de proteger algo contra una ofensiva o daño. Pronounced [d̪eˈfẽnsa]. It ranks #763 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with densa and defina.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | defensa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪eˈfẽnsa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for defensa is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eˈfẽnsa]. Corpus data places it at rank #763 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for defensa, with forms such as "ddefensa", "deefnsa", and "defenas". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "densa", "defina", "dehesa", 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 defensa, spelled D-E-F-E-N-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de proteger algo contra una ofensiva o daño.
- 2Medio por el cual esta defensa₁ se lleva a cabo.
- 3Conjunto de letrados encargados de abogar por el o los imputados en una causa.
- 4Motivos o razones que esta parte aduce para refutar la imputación o cargo.
- 5Obras de refuerzo que se erigen junto a un edificio o un accidente natural para preservar la integridad de éste.
- 6Conjunto de mecanismos de los que un organismo dispone para eliminar los agentes patógenos.
- 7Fardos u objetos elásticos que se cuelgan de las bordas de un buque para prevenir el impacto del casco contra el muelle u otras embarcaciones mientras se encuentra amarrado.
- 8Pieza que, en un automóvil, protege sus extremos frontal y posterior de impactos contra otros objetos.
- 9Jugador que juega en retaguardia, intentando prevenir o detener el avance del rival.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddefensa,deefnsa,defenas,defennsa,defenssa,defesna,deffensa,defnesa,dfeensa,edfensa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for defensa
Misspelling Variants of "defensa"
Frequency rank: #763 in Spanish
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