policía
[poliˈsia]
The verdict
“policía” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #436. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #436
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fuerza de seguridad encargada de imponer el orden en el interior de un Estado, de la investigación de los delitos y la persecución y captura de los imputados de los mismos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-policia · policía · Spanish
policía · rank #436 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #436
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH paz
Nearest frequency peer: paz (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “policía”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- hola
hola
99,568 corpus weight
- m
m
99,567 corpus weight
- paz
paz
99,566 corpus weight
- policía
policía
99,565 corpus weight
- queda
queda
99,564 corpus weight
- salud
salud
99,563 corpus weight
What this shows “policía” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | policía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [poliˈsia] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “policía”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around policía (IPA [poliˈsia]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #436 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fuerza de seguridad encargada de imponer el orden en el interior de un Estado, de la investigación de los delitos y la persecución y captura de los imputados de los mismos.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for policía, with forms such as "oplicía", "ploicía", and "poilcía". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "póliza", "policy", "Polonia", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is policía, spelled P-O-L-I-C-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Fuerza de seguridad encargada de imponer el orden en el interior de un Estado, de la investigación de los delitos y la persecución y captura de los imputados de los mismos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplicía
- ploicía
- poilcía
- polciía
- policaí
- policcía
- poliíca
- pollicía
- ppolicía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of policía - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "policía", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).