historia
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#172
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
historia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto de los acontecimientos pasados. Pronounced [isˈt̪oɾja]. It ranks #172 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with history and historias.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | historia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [isˈt̪oɾja] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for historia is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [isˈt̪oɾja]. Corpus data places it at rank #172 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 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 historia, with forms such as "hhistoria", "hisotria", and "hisstoria". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "history", "historias", "histórico", 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 historia, spelled H-I-S-T-O-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de los acontecimientos pasados.
- 2Por extensión, relato o narración que describe un subconjunto de sucesos pasados.
- 3Obra escrita o pictórica que contiene relatos de acontecimientos pasados.
- 4Disciplina que estudia la identificación y recapitulación de los acontecimientos pasados.
- 5En particular, la que versa de la historia₁ de la humanidad a partir de la invención de la escritura.
- 6Narración que pretende falaz o engañosamente dar cuenta de un evento.
- 7Situación complicada o enojosa.
- 8En una red social: Publicación breve, de persistencia limitada, que se muestra al usuario dentro de una secuencia automática que incluye a otras historias.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhistoria,hisotria,hisstoria,histoira,historai,historria,histroia,histtoria,hitsoria,hsitoria,ihstoria
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for historia
Misspelling Variants of "historia"
Frequency rank: #172 in Spanish
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