-ía
[ˈia]
The verdict
“-ía” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma sustantivos femeninos con el significado de "estado, condición, dignidad u oficio".
Corpus desk
Index ES-ia · -ía · Spanish
-ía · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -ía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | [ˈia] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
-ía is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix, transcribed [ˈia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for -ía in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is -ía, spelled --Í-A.
Definition
- 1Forma sustantivos femeninos con el significado de "estado, condición, dignidad u oficio".
- 2Forma sustantivos femeninos con el significado de "taller o almacén", a partir de palabras con el sufijo -ero.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how -ía appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
contador → contaduría • zalamero → zalamería • auditor → auditoría
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.