homilía
[omiˈlia]
The verdict
“homilía” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #45,981. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,981
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 15,034
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Razonamiento o plática que se hace para explicar al pueblo las materias de religión.
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 | 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) |
Where “homilía” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around homilía (IPA [omiˈlia]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,981 among 15,034 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for homilía, with forms such as "hhomilía", "hmoilía", and "hoimlía". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "humilla", "hombría", "homicida", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is homilía, spelled H-O-M-I-L-Í-A.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of homilía - 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 “homilía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-O-M-I-L-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [omiˈlia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “humilla” - see the side-by-side comparison. homilía vs humilla
- 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.