enciendes
[ẽnˈsjẽn̪d̪es]
The verdict
“enciendes” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #68,531 among 101,141 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,531
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 101,141
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (tú) del presente de indicativo de encender o de encenderse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enciendes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽnˈsjẽn̪d̪es] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “enciendes” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
enciendes is uncommon Spanish at frequency #68,531 among 101,141 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ẽnˈsjẽn̪d̪es]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Segunda persona del singular (tú) del presente de indicativo de encender o de encenderse.".
enciendes has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is enciendes, spelled E-N-C-I-E-N-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (tú) del presente de indicativo de encender o de encenderse.
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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Using “enciendes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-N-C-I-E-N-D-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ẽnˈsjẽn̪d̪es] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.