licencia

/[liˈsẽnsja]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,216

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

licencia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Baja temporal, la baja que se otorga a un trabajador por un período de tiempo en casos de enfermedad, accidente, etc. Pronounced [liˈsẽnsja]. It ranks #2,216 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with licenciado and licenciada.

Key facts for licencia
PropertyValue
Headwordlicencia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[liˈsẽnsja]
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,216
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for licencia is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [liˈsẽnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,216 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 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for licencia, with forms such as "ilcencia", "lciencia", and "liccencia". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "licenciado", "licenciada", "latencia", 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 licencia, spelled L-I-C-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
    Baja temporal, la baja que se otorga a un trabajador por un período de tiempo en casos de enfermedad, accidente, etc.
  2. 2
    Documento que da autorización legal para poder conducir un vehículo.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ilcencia,lciencia,liccencia,licecnia,licencai,licenccia,licenica,licenncia,licnecia,liecncia,lisensia,llicencia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for licencia

Misspelling Variants of "licencia"

ilcencia8lciencia8liccencia9licecnia8licencai8licenccia9licenica8licenncia9
Misspelling Variants of "licencia"

Frequency rank: #2,216 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "licencia"?
"licencia" is spelled L-I-C-E-N-C-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [liˈsẽnsja].
What does "licencia" mean?
As a noun, "licencia" means: Baja temporal, la baja que se otorga a un trabajador por un período de tiempo en casos de enfermedad, accidente, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "licencia"?
"licencia" is commonly confused with "licenciado", "licenciada", "latencia". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "licencia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "licencia" is [liˈsẽnsja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "licencia" come from?
"licencia" 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.