homilía
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,981
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
homilía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Razonamiento o plática que se hace para explicar al pueblo las materias de religión. Pronounced [omiˈlia]. Often confused with humilla and hombría.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | homilía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [omiˈlia] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for homilía is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [omiˈlia]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,981 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for homilía, with forms such as "hhomilía", "hmoilía", and "hoimlía". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "humilla", "hombría", "homicida", 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 homilía, spelled H-O-M-I-L-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Razonamiento o plática que se hace para explicar al pueblo las materias de religión.
- 2Parte de la ceremonia religiosa en el ritual de la Iglesia católica, en donde se hace exhortación sobre las lecturas y/o el sacramento que se realiza, con el fin de hacer más inteligibles los pasajes de la Biblia que se acaban de proclamar en la asamblea litúrgica.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhomilía,hmoilía,hoimlía,homilaí,homillía,homiíla,homliía,hommilía,ohmilía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for homilía
Misspelling Variants of "homilía"
Frequency rank: #45,981 in Spanish
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