dispensa
[d̪isˈpẽnsa]
The verdict
“dispensa” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #45,877. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,877
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Excepción al cumplimiento de una norma general que una autoridad concede graciosamente a alguien. Se una más comúnmente para referirse a las que el papa o los obispos conceden a los fieles católicos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dispensa · dispensa · Spanish
dispensa · rank #45,877 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,877
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH diary
Nearest frequency peer: diary (-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 “dispensa”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- despiadados
despiadados
54,127 corpus weight
- devorando
devorando
54,126 corpus weight
- diary
diary
54,125 corpus weight
- dispensa
dispensa
54,124 corpus weight
- distorsiona
distorsiona
54,123 corpus weight
- divertía
divertía
54,121 corpus weight
What this shows “dispensa” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dispensa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪isˈpẽnsa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “dispensa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around dispensa (IPA [d̪isˈpẽnsa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,877 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for dispensa, with forms such as "ddispensa", "dipsensa", and "disepnsa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "disponía", "disponga", "dispersa", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is dispensa, spelled D-I-S-P-E-N-S-A.
Definition
- 1Excepción al cumplimiento de una norma general que una autoridad concede graciosamente a alguien. Se una más comúnmente para referirse a las que el papa o los obispos conceden a los fieles católicos.
- 2Documento o instrumento jurídico en el que está escrita la dispensa₁.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddispensa
- dipsensa
- disepnsa
- dispenas
- dispennsa
- dispenssa
- dispesna
- dispnesa
- disppensa
- disspensa
- dsipensa
- idspensa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dispensa - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dispensa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).