-ería
[eˈɾia]
The verdict
“-ería” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma sustantivos femeninos con el significado de "grupo o pluralidad" de lo indicado por la raíz..
Corpus desk
Index ES-eria · -ería · Spanish
-ería · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -ería |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | [eˈɾia] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “-ería” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
-ería is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix, transcribed [eˈɾia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
-ería has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is -ería, spelled --E-R-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Forma sustantivos femeninos con el significado de "grupo o pluralidad" de lo indicado por la raíz..
- 2Forma sustantivos femeninos, a partir de adjetivos, con el significado de "condición o estado" de lo indicado por la raíz, a menudo con matiz despectivo..
- 3Forma sustantivos femeninos con el significado de "oficio o taller" de un oficio indicado por la raíz..
- 4Forma sustantivos femeninos con el significado de "acción o expresión típicas" de lo indicado por la raíz, a menudo con matiz despectivo..
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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.