docencia

/[d̪oˈsẽnsja]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#11,559

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

docencia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Práctica o ejercicio del que enseña. Pronounced [d̪oˈsẽnsja]. Often confused with dolencia and dolencias.

Key facts for docencia
PropertyValue
Headworddocencia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[d̪oˈsẽnsja]
Letters8
Frequency rank#11,559
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for docencia is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪oˈsẽnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,559 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Práctica o ejercicio del que enseña.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for docencia, with forms such as "dcoencia", "ddocencia", and "doccencia". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "dolencia", "dolencias", "docena", 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 docencia, spelled D-O-C-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

  1. 1
    Práctica o ejercicio del que enseña.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: dcoencia,ddocencia,doccencia,docecnia,docencai,docenccia,docenica,docenncia,docnecia,doecncia,dosensia,odcencia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for docencia

Misspelling Variants of "docencia"

dcoencia8ddocencia9doccencia9docecnia8docencai8docenccia9docenica8docenncia9
Misspelling Variants of "docencia"

Frequency rank: #11,559 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "docencia"?
"docencia" is spelled D-O-C-E-N-C-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪oˈsẽnsja].
What does "docencia" mean?
As a noun, "docencia" means: Práctica o ejercicio del que enseña.
What words are commonly confused with "docencia"?
"docencia" is commonly confused with "dolencia", "dolencias", "docena". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "docencia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "docencia" is [d̪oˈsẽnsja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "docencia" come from?
"docencia" 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.