España
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#236
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
España is aSpanishname. It means: País ubicado en el suroeste de Europa, que ocupa la mayoría de la península ibérica. Limita al oeste con Portugal y el océano Atlántico, al norte con el mar Cantábrico, Francia y Andorra y al este ... Pronounced [esˈpaɲa]. It ranks #236 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with están and espía.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | España |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [esˈpaɲa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for España is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esˈpaɲa]. Corpus data places it at rank #236 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for España, with forms such as "epsaña", "esapña", and "espaañ". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "están", "espía", "estaba", 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 España, spelled E-S-P-A-Ñ-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1País ubicado en el suroeste de Europa, que ocupa la mayoría de la península ibérica. Limita al oeste con Portugal y el océano Atlántico, al norte con el mar Cantábrico, Francia y Andorra y al este y sur con el mar Mediterráneo. Lo integran también las Islas Baleares, las Islas Canarias y las ciudades de Ceuta y Melilla.
- 2Apellido.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epsaña,esapña,espaañ,esppaña,espñaa,esspaña,sepaña
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for España
Misspelling Variants of "España"
Frequency rank: #236 in Spanish
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