hostia
[ˈost̪ja]
The verdict
“hostia” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,614. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,614
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hoja de pan ácimo que en la religión cristiana se consagra para ser consumida por los fieles en la eucaristía.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hostia · hostia · Spanish
hostia · rank #14,614 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,614
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH hospitalidad
Nearest frequency peer: hospitalidad (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “hostia”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- hipócritas
hipócritas
85,390 corpus weight
- hit
hit
85,389 corpus weight
- hospitalidad
hospitalidad
85,388 corpus weight
- hostia
hostia
85,387 corpus weight
- humanista
humanista
85,386 corpus weight
- hundido
hundido
85,385 corpus weight
What this shows “hostia” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | hostia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈost̪ja] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “hostia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around hostia (IPA [ˈost̪ja]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,614 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for hostia, with forms such as "hhostia", "hosita", and "hosstia". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "hostil", "hostias", "ostia", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is hostia, spelled H-O-S-T-I-A.
Definition
- 1Hoja de pan ácimo que en la religión cristiana se consagra para ser consumida por los fieles en la eucaristía.
- 2Más generalmente, víctima que se sacrifica a los dioses.
- 3Persona que toma el lugar de otro para expiar su culpa.
- 4Golpe dado con intención de dañar o herir.
- 5Golpe fortuito.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hostia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y arrancas como un loco hacia Son Sant Joan y por poco no te metes una hostia contra un range rover que iba por donde no podía”. Mesquida, Biel (2009) Acrollam. Barcelona: El Aleph Editores, p. 126.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhostia
- hosita
- hosstia
- hostai
- hosttia
- hotsia
- hsotia
- ohstia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hostia - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hostia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).