esencia
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,333
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
esencia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Naturaleza propia de las cosas. Pronounced [eˈsẽnsja]. It ranks #4,333 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with especia and esencial.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | esencia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eˈsẽnsja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for esencia is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eˈsẽnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,333 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for esencia, with forms such as "ecencia", "eesncia", and "esecnia". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "especia", "esencial", "estancia", 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 esencia, spelled E-S-E-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Naturaleza propia de las cosas.
- 2Lo que en ellas es permanente e invariable.
- 3Aspectos internos de las cosas en oposición a su forma externa.
- 4Extracto líquido de lo que da olor o sabor a un producto.
- 5Lo más caracteristico e importante de una cosa.
- 6Lo que en alguien o algo se encuentra en gran cantidad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecencia,eesncia,esecnia,esencai,esenccia,esenica,esenncia,esensia,esnecia,essencia,seencia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for esencia
Misspelling Variants of "esencia"
Frequency rank: #4,333 in Spanish
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