melancolía
[melãŋkoˈlia]
The verdict
“melancolía” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #18,021 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #18,021
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sentimiento de mucha tristeza, que produce el desgano de una persona.
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 | melancolía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [melãŋkoˈlia] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “melancolía” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for melancolía is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [melãŋkoˈlia]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,021 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sentimiento de mucha tristeza, que produce el desgano de una persona.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for melancolía, with forms such as "emlancolía", "mealncolía", and "melacnolía". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "melancólico", "melancólica", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is melancolía, spelled M-E-L-A-N-C-O-L-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Sentimiento de mucha tristeza, que produce el desgano de una persona.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emlancolía,mealncolía,melacnolía,melanccolía,melancloía,melancolaí,melancollía,melancoíla,melanncolía,melanoclía,mellancolía,melnacolía,mleancolía,mmelancolía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of melancolía - 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 “melancolía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-E-L-A-N-C-O-L-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [melãŋkoˈlia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “melancólico” - see the side-by-side comparison. melancolía vs melancólico
- 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.