misericordia

/[miseɾiˈkoɾð̞ja]/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,884

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

misericordia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Inclinación a perdonar o a sentir compasión por quienes sufren, especialmente por aquellos que son más desfavorecidos. Pronounced [miseɾiˈkoɾð̞ja]. It ranks #7,884 in Spanish word frequency.

Key facts for misericordia
PropertyValue
Headwordmisericordia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[miseɾiˈkoɾð̞ja]
Letters12
Frequency rank#7,884
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for misericordia is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [miseɾiˈkoɾð̞ja]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,884 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for misericordia, with forms such as "imsericordia", "micericordia", and "miesricordia". 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 misericordia, spelled M-I-S-E-R-I-C-O-R-D-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Inclinación a perdonar o a sentir compasión por quienes sufren, especialmente por aquellos que son más desfavorecidos.
  2. 2
    Cualidad moral o virtud que nos hace apiadarnos de la desgracia ajena y proceder en consecuencia.
  3. 3
    Cualidad de Dios de perdonar los pecados y debilidades humanas.
  4. 4
    Atributo divino de perdonar a los pecadores.
  5. 5
    Pieza pequeña adosada en el revés del asiento del coro que se deja ver cuando éste está levantado, sobre la que se apoyan ligeramente los canónigos cuando tienen que estar mucho tiempo de pie; aparentemente están erguidos pero realmente están ligeramente sentados.
  6. 6
    Puñal del caballero para rematar a los heridos.
  7. 7
    Pequeña cantidad de algo que se da como limosna o caridad.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: imsericordia,micericordia,miesricordia,miseircordia,miserciordia,misericcordia,misericodria,misericordai,misericorddia,misericorida,misericorrdia,misericrodia,miseriocrdia,miserricordia,misreicordia,missericordia,mmisericordia,msiericordia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for misericordia

Misspelling Variants of "misericordia"

imsericordia12micericordia12miesricordia12miseircordia12miserciordia12misericcordia13misericodria12misericordai12
Misspelling Variants of "misericordia"

Frequency rank: #7,884 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "misericordia"?
"misericordia" is spelled M-I-S-E-R-I-C-O-R-D-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [miseɾiˈkoɾð̞ja].
What does "misericordia" mean?
As a noun, "misericordia" means: Inclinación a perdonar o a sentir compasión por quienes sufren, especialmente por aquellos que son más desfavorecidos.
What are common misspellings of "misericordia"?
Common misspellings include "imsericordia", "micericordia", "miesricordia", "miseircordia", "miserciordia". The correct spelling is "misericordia".
How do you pronounce "misericordia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "misericordia" is [miseɾiˈkoɾð̞ja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "misericordia" come from?
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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.