indigencia

/[ĩn̪d̪iˈxẽnsja]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#30,519

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

indigencia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Falta de medios para alimentarse, vestirse, etc; estado de pobreza extrema. Pronounced [ĩn̪d̪iˈxẽnsja]. Often confused with indolencia and indulgencia.

Key facts for indigencia
PropertyValue
Headwordindigencia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ĩn̪d̪iˈxẽnsja]
Letters10
Frequency rank#30,519
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of indigencia in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for indigencia is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩn̪d̪iˈxẽnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #30,519 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Falta de medios para alimentarse, vestirse, etc; estado de pobreza extrema.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for indigencia, with forms such as "idnigencia", "inddigencia", and "indgiencia". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "indolencia", "indulgencia", "indígena", and more, 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 indigencia, spelled I-N-D-I-G-E-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Falta de medios para alimentarse, vestirse, etc; estado de pobreza extrema.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: idnigencia,inddigencia,indgiencia,indiegncia,indigecnia,indigencai,indigenccia,indigenica,indigenncia,indigensia,indiggencia,indignecia,inidgencia,inndigencia,nidigencia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for indigencia

Misspelling Variants of "indigencia"

idnigencia10inddigencia11indgiencia10indiegncia10indigecnia10indigencai10indigenccia11indigenica10
Misspelling Variants of "indigencia"

Frequency rank: #30,519 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "indigencia"?
"indigencia" is spelled I-N-D-I-G-E-N-C-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩn̪d̪iˈxẽnsja].
What does "indigencia" mean?
As a noun, "indigencia" means: Falta de medios para alimentarse, vestirse, etc; estado de pobreza extrema.
What words are commonly confused with "indigencia"?
"indigencia" is commonly confused with "indolencia", "indulgencia", "indígena". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "indigencia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "indigencia" is [ĩn̪d̪iˈxẽnsja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "indigencia" come from?
"indigencia" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.