miseria

/[miˈseɾja]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,626

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

miseria is aSpanishnoun. It means: Estado de pobreza o gran escasez material. Pronounced [miˈseɾja]. It ranks #4,626 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mísero and misterio.

Key facts for miseria
PropertyValue
Headwordmiseria
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[miˈseɾja]
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,626
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for miseria is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [miˈseɾja]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,626 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for miseria, with forms such as "imseria", "miceria", and "miesria". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "mísero", "misterio", "miserias", 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 miseria, spelled M-I-S-E-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Estado de pobreza o gran escasez material.
  2. 2
    Falta de valores, pobreza espiritual.
  3. 3
    Plaga de piojos provocada habitualmente por escasez de higiene.
  4. 4
    Cantidad demasiado pequeña. Cobro una miseria.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: imseria,miceria,miesria,miseira,miserai,miserria,misreia,misseria,mmiseria,msieria

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for miseria

Misspelling Variants of "miseria"

imseria7miceria7miesria7miseira7miserai7miserria8misreia7misseria8
Misspelling Variants of "miseria"

Frequency rank: #4,626 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "miseria"?
"miseria" is spelled M-I-S-E-R-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [miˈseɾja].
What does "miseria" mean?
As a noun, "miseria" means: Estado de pobreza o gran escasez material.
What words are commonly confused with "miseria"?
"miseria" is commonly confused with "mísero", "misterio", "miserias". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "miseria"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "miseria" is [miˈseɾja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "miseria" come from?
"miseria" 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.