enseña
[ẽnˈseɲa]
The verdict
“enseña” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #4,510 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,510
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Emblema, señal, imagen, medalla o bandera que identifica a una institución, grupo, marca, rango, etcétera, y sirve como distintivo.
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 | enseña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽnˈseɲa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “enseña” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for enseña is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽnˈseɲa]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,510 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Emblema, señal, imagen, medalla o bandera que identifica a una institución, grupo, marca, rango, etcétera, y sirve como distintivo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for enseña, with forms such as "enceña", "enesña", and "ennseña". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "escena", "entera", "enseño", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is enseña, spelled E-N-S-E-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Emblema, señal, imagen, medalla o bandera que identifica a una institución, grupo, marca, rango, etcétera, y sirve como distintivo.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enceña,enesña,ennseña,enseañ,ensseña,ensñea,esneña,neseña
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enseña - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “enseña”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-N-S-E-Ñ-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ẽnˈseɲa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “escena” - see the side-by-side comparison. enseña vs escena
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.