islam
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,739
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
islam is aSpanishnoun. It means: Religión monoteísta cuyo dios es Alá, del mismo tronco judeocristiano, que sigue las enseñanzas de Mahoma y que tiene sus principales lugares sagrados en La Meca, Medina y Jerusalén. Pronounced [isˈlãm]. It ranks #7,739 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Islas and Island.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | islam |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [isˈlãm] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for islam is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [isˈlãm]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,739 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for islam, with forms such as "ilsam", "isalm", and "islamm". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Islas", "Island", "isa", 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 islam, spelled I-S-L-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Religión monoteísta cuyo dios es Alá, del mismo tronco judeocristiano, que sigue las enseñanzas de Mahoma y que tiene sus principales lugares sagrados en La Meca, Medina y Jerusalén.
- 2Conjunto de países que adhieren mayoritariamente a esta religión.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilsam,isalm,islamm,isllam,islma,isslam,silam
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "islam"
Frequency rank: #7,739 in Spanish
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