diócesis
[ˈd̪josesis]
The verdict
“diócesis” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #10,321. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,321
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Distrito o territorio en que un prelado (arzobispo, obispo, etc) tiene y ejerce jurisdicción espiritual.
Corpus desk
Index ES-diocesis · diócesis · Spanish
diócesis · rank #10,321 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,321
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH disfrutan
Nearest frequency peer: disfrutan (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “diócesis”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- dimisión
dimisión
89,683 corpus weight
- diplomáticos
diplomáticos
89,682 corpus weight
- disfrutan
disfrutan
89,681 corpus weight
- diócesis
diócesis
89,680 corpus weight
- domésticos
domésticos
89,679 corpus weight
- ea
ea
89,677 corpus weight
What this shows “diócesis” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diócesis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈd̪josesis] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “diócesis”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around diócesis (IPA [ˈd̪josesis]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,321 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Distrito o territorio en que un prelado (arzobispo, obispo, etc) tiene y ejerce jurisdicción espiritual.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for diócesis, with forms such as "ddiócesis", "dicóesis", and "dióccesis". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is diócesis, spelled D-I-Ó-C-E-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Distrito o territorio en que un prelado (arzobispo, obispo, etc) tiene y ejerce jurisdicción espiritual.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how diócesis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Francisco de Borja Valenzuela, debió emitir una carta pastoral a toda la diócesis en la forma de un comunicado extensible a la prensa y medios de comunicación, declarando que las apariciones de la virgen María en el cerro El Membrillar de Peñablanca eran falsas.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiócesis
- dicóesis
- dióccesis
- diócecis
- dióceiss
- diócesiss
- diócessi
- diócessis
- diócseis
- dióecsis
- diósesis
- dóicesis
- idócesis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of diócesis - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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