empieza
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,444
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
empieza is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de empezar. Pronounced [ẽmˈpjesa]. It ranks #1,444 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with emplea and empresa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empieza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmˈpjesa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for empieza is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽmˈpjesa]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,444 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for empieza, with forms such as "emipeza", "emmpieza", and "empeiza". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "emplea", "empresa", "empiezo", 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 empieza, spelled E-M-P-I-E-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de empezar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de empezar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emipeza,emmpieza,empeiza,empieaz,empiezza,empizea,emppieza,epmieza,mepieza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for empieza
Misspelling Variants of "empieza"
Frequency rank: #1,444 in Spanish
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