heladería
[elað̞eˈɾia]
The verdict
“heladería” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #41,397 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #41,397
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tienda en que se hacen y venden helados.
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 | heladería |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [elað̞eˈɾia] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “heladería” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for heladería is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [elað̞eˈɾia]. Corpus data places it at rank #41,397 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tienda en que se hacen y venden helados.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for heladería, with forms such as "ehladería", "healdería", and "heladdería". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "heladera", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is heladería, spelled H-E-L-A-D-E-R-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Tienda en que se hacen y venden helados.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ehladería,healdería,heladdería,heladeraí,heladerría,heladeíra,heladreía,helaedría,heldaería,helladería,hheladería,hleadería
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of heladería - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “heladería”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-E-L-A-D-E-R-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [elað̞eˈɾia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “heladera” - see the side-by-side comparison. heladería vs heladera
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.