empatía

/[ẽmpaˈt̪ia]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,495

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

empatía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Identificación emocional e intelectual con los sentimientos, pensamientos, o actitudes de otros. Pronounced [ẽmpaˈt̪ia]. Often confused with emitía and empatar.

Key facts for empatía
PropertyValue
Headwordempatía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ẽmpaˈt̪ia]
Letters7
Frequency rank#10,495
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for empatía is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽmpaˈt̪ia]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,495 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for empatía, with forms such as "emaptía", "emmpatía", and "empataí". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "emitía", "empatar", 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 empatía, spelled E-M-P-A-T-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Identificación emocional e intelectual con los sentimientos, pensamientos, o actitudes de otros.
  2. 2
    Comprensión intuitiva del otro que nace de esta identificación.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emaptía,emmpatía,empataí,empattía,empaíta,emppatía,emptaía,epmatía,mepatía

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for empatía

Misspelling Variants of "empatía"

emaptía7emmpatía8empataí7empattía8empaíta7emppatía8emptaía7epmatía7
Misspelling Variants of "empatía"

Frequency rank: #10,495 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "empatía"?
"empatía" is spelled E-M-P-A-T-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ẽmpaˈt̪ia].
What does "empatía" mean?
As a noun, "empatía" means: Identificación emocional e intelectual con los sentimientos, pensamientos, o actitudes de otros.
What words are commonly confused with "empatía"?
"empatía" is commonly confused with "emitía", "empatar". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "empatía"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "empatía" is [ẽmpaˈt̪ia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "empatía" come from?
"empatía" 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.