especialista

/[espesjaˈlist̪a]/ adj

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,505

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

especialista is anSpanishadj. It means: Que conoce en profundidad o se concentra en un área específica de un saber, un arte o una actividad. Pronounced [espesjaˈlist̪a]. It ranks #5,505 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with especializa and especialistas.

Key facts for especialista
PropertyValue
Headwordespecialista
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[espesjaˈlist̪a]
Letters12
Frequency rank#5,505
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of especialista in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for especialista is 12 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [espesjaˈlist̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,505 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Que conoce en profundidad o se concentra en un área específica de un saber, un arte o una actividad.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for especialista, with forms such as "epsecialista", "esepcialista", and "espceialista". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "especializa", "especialistas", 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 especialista, spelled E-S-P-E-C-I-A-L-I-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Que conoce en profundidad o se concentra en un área específica de un saber, un arte o una actividad.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epsecialista,esepcialista,espceialista,especailista,especcialista,especiailsta,especialisat,especialissta,especialistta,especialitsa,especiallista,especialsita,especilaista,espeicalista,espesialista,esppecialista,esspecialista,sepecialista

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for especialista

Misspelling Variants of "especialista"

epsecialista12esepcialista12espceialista12especailista12especcialista13especiailsta12especialisat12especialissta13
Misspelling Variants of "especialista"

Frequency rank: #5,505 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "especialista"?
"especialista" is spelled E-S-P-E-C-I-A-L-I-S-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [espesjaˈlist̪a].
What does "especialista" mean?
As an adj, "especialista" means: Que conoce en profundidad o se concentra en un área específica de un saber, un arte o una actividad.
What words are commonly confused with "especialista"?
"especialista" is commonly confused with "especializa", "especialistas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "especialista"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "especialista" is [espesjaˈlist̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "especialista" come from?
"especialista" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.