informática

/[ĩɱfoɾˈmat̪ika]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,911

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

informática is aSpanishnoun. It means: Rama de la ingeniería que estudia el tratamiento de la información mediante el uso de máquinas automáticas. Es un amplio campo que incluye los fundamentos teóricos, el diseño, la programación y el ... Pronounced [ĩɱfoɾˈmat̪ika]. It ranks #4,911 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with informativa and informático.

Key facts for informática
PropertyValue
Headwordinformática
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ĩɱfoɾˈmat̪ika]
Letters11
Frequency rank#4,911
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for informática is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩɱfoɾˈmat̪ika]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,911 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Rama de la ingeniería que estudia el tratamiento de la información mediante el uso de máquinas automáticas. Es un amplio campo que incluye los fundamentos teóricos, el diseño, la programación y el ...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for informática, with forms such as "ifnormática", "infformática", and "infomrática". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "informativa", "informático", "information", 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 informática, spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-Á-T-I-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rama de la ingeniería que estudia el tratamiento de la información mediante el uso de máquinas automáticas. Es un amplio campo que incluye los fundamentos teóricos, el diseño, la programación y el uso de las computadoras como herramienta de solución de problemas y de comunicación.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ifnormática,infformática,infomrática,informmática,informtáica,informáitca,informátcia,informátiac,informáticca,informáttica,inforrmática,inforámtica,infromática,innformática,inofrmática,niformática

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for informática

Misspelling Variants of "informática"

ifnormática11infformática12infomrática11informmática12informtáica11informáitca11informátcia11informátiac11
Misspelling Variants of "informática"

Frequency rank: #4,911 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "informática"?
"informática" is spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-Á-T-I-C-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩɱfoɾˈmat̪ika].
What does "informática" mean?
As a noun, "informática" means: Rama de la ingeniería que estudia el tratamiento de la información mediante el uso de máquinas automáticas. Es un amplio campo que incluye los fundamentos teóricos, el diseño, la programación y el ...
What words are commonly confused with "informática"?
"informática" is commonly confused with "informativa", "informático", "information". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "informática"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "informática" is [ĩɱfoɾˈmat̪ika]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "informática" come from?
"informática" 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.