empatía
[ẽmpaˈt̪ia]
The verdict
“empatía” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #10,495. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,495
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Identificación emocional e intelectual con los sentimientos, pensamientos, o actitudes de otros.
Corpus desk
Index ES-empatia · empatía · Spanish
empatía · rank #10,495 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,495
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH echaron
Nearest frequency peer: echaron (-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 “empatía”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- distribuir
distribuir
89,509 corpus weight
- dominicano
dominicano
89,508 corpus weight
- echaron
echaron
89,507 corpus weight
- empatía
empatía
89,506 corpus weight
- enseñando
enseñando
89,505 corpus weight
- espadas
espadas
89,504 corpus weight
What this shows “empatía” 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 | empatía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽmpaˈt̪ia] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “empatía”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around empatía (IPA [ẽmpaˈt̪ia]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,495 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for empatía, with forms such as "emaptía", "emmpatía", and "empataí". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "emitía", "empatar", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is empatía, spelled E-M-P-A-T-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Identificación emocional e intelectual con los sentimientos, pensamientos, o actitudes de otros.
- 2Comprensión intuitiva del otro que nace de esta identificación.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how empatía appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
—Sí, pero al menos tengo buen insight y eso me sirve para ver el conflicto. Y sea como sea, Panchita me calienta, es un minón, qué querés que te diga, y hay empatía, viste? Cuando estamos juntos hay un rapport bárbaro.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emaptía
- emmpatía
- empataí
- empattía
- empaíta
- emppatía
- emptaía
- epmatía
- mepatía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empatía - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "empatía", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).