etnia
[ˈet̪nja]
The verdict
“etnia” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #12,601. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,601
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conjunto de seres humanos que tienen en común una cultura y una lengua.
Corpus desk
Index ES-etnia · etnia · Spanish
etnia · rank #12,601 · 6 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,601
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH establecieron
Nearest frequency peer: establecieron (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “etnia”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- escasas
escasas
87,403 corpus weight
- esconden
esconden
87,402 corpus weight
- establecier…
establecieron
87,401 corpus weight
- etnia
etnia
87,400 corpus weight
- expuestas
expuestas
87,399 corpus weight
- fallido
fallido
87,398 corpus weight
What this shows “etnia” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | etnia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈet̪nja] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “etnia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around etnia (IPA [ˈet̪nja]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,601 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Conjunto de seres humanos que tienen en común una cultura y una lengua.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for etnia, with forms such as "entia", "etina", and "etnai". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "étnico", "étnica", "etnias", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is etnia, spelled E-T-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de seres humanos que tienen en común una cultura y una lengua.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- entia
- etina
- etnai
- etnnia
- ettnia
- tenia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of etnia - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).