perspicacia

/[peɾspiˈkasja]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#49,190

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

perspicacia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Agudeza y penetración de la vista. Pronounced [peɾspiˈkasja].

Key facts for perspicacia
PropertyValue
Headwordperspicacia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[peɾspiˈkasja]
Letters11
Frequency rank#49,190
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for perspicacia is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾspiˈkasja]. Corpus data places it at rank #49,190 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for perspicacia, with forms such as "eprspicacia", "perpsicacia", and "perrspicacia". 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 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 perspicacia, spelled P-E-R-S-P-I-C-A-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
    Agudeza y penetración de la vista.
  2. 2
    Penetración de ingenio o entendimiento.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eprspicacia,perpsicacia,perrspicacia,persipcacia,perspciacia,perspiaccia,perspicacai,perspicaccia,perspicaica,perspicasia,perspiccacia,perspiccaia,persppicacia,persspicacia,pesrpicacia,pperspicacia,prespicacia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for perspicacia

Misspelling Variants of "perspicacia"

eprspicacia11perpsicacia11perrspicacia12persipcacia11perspciacia11perspiaccia11perspicacai11perspicaccia12
Misspelling Variants of "perspicacia"

Frequency rank: #49,190 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "perspicacia"?
"perspicacia" is spelled P-E-R-S-P-I-C-A-C-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [peɾspiˈkasja].
What does "perspicacia" mean?
As a noun, "perspicacia" means: Agudeza y penetración de la vista.
What are common misspellings of "perspicacia"?
Common misspellings include "eprspicacia", "perpsicacia", "perrspicacia", "persipcacia", "perspciacia". The correct spelling is "perspicacia".
How do you pronounce "perspicacia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "perspicacia" is [peɾspiˈkasja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "perspicacia" come from?
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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.