infancia
[ĩɱˈfãnsja]
The verdict
“infancia” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #2,723 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #2,723
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Etapa de la vida previa a la madurez física
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 | infancia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩɱˈfãnsja] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “infancia” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for infancia is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩɱˈfãnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,723 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for infancia, with forms such as "ifnancia", "inafncia", and "infacnia". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "infanta", "infantil", "instancia", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is infancia, spelled I-N-F-A-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1Etapa de la vida previa a la madurez física
- 2Por extensión, etapa inicial de algún proceso o desarrollo
- 3Conjunto de personas en su infancia₁
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ifnancia,inafncia,infacnia,infancai,infanccia,infanica,infanncia,infansia,inffancia,infnacia,innfancia,nifancia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infancia - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “infancia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is I-N-F-A-N-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ĩɱˈfãnsja] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “infanta” - see the side-by-side comparison. infancia vs infanta
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.