insuficiencia
[ĩnsufiˈsjẽnsja]
The verdict
“insuficiencia” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #13,271 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #13,271
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 13
- letters
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Falta o carencia de suficiencia o capacidad.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insuficiencia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩnsufiˈsjẽnsja] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #13,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “insuficiencia” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for insuficiencia is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩnsufiˈsjẽnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,271 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for insuficiencia, with forms such as "innsuficiencia", "insfuiciencia", and "inssuficiencia". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 insuficiencia, spelled I-N-S-U-F-I-C-I-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
- 1Falta o carencia de suficiencia o capacidad.
- 2Condición de no ser suficiente, de faltar, no bastar o no haber lo necesario para algún fin.
- 3Condición de un órgano que no tiene la capacidad suficiente para funcionar adecuadamente.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innsuficiencia,insfuiciencia,inssuficiencia,insufciiencia,insufficiencia,insuficciencia,insuficeincia,insuficiecnia,insuficiencai,insuficienccia,insuficienica,insuficienncia,insuficinecia,insufiicencia,insufisiensia,insuifciencia,inusficiencia,isnuficiencia,nisuficiencia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of insuficiencia - 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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Using “insuficiencia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is I-N-S-U-F-I-C-I-E-N-C-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ĩnsufiˈsjẽnsja] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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