holiday
/ˈhɒl.ɪ.deɪ/
The verdict
“holiday” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #29,248. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,248
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 15,034
- “H” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Feriado, festivo, día de fiesta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | holiday |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɒl.ɪ.deɪ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “holiday” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around holiday (IPA /ˈhɒl.ɪ.deɪ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,248 among 15,034 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for holiday, with forms such as "hholiday", "hloiday", and "hoilday". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is holiday, spelled H-O-L-I-D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Feriado, festivo, día de fiesta.
- 2Vacaciones.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hholiday
- hloiday
- hoilday
- holdiay
- holiady
- holidayy
- holidday
- holidya
- holliday
- ohliday
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of holiday - 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 “holiday”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-O-L-I-D-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈhɒl.ɪ.deɪ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.