profecía
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,692
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
profecía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Predicción clarividente del futuro por resultado de un don especial. Pronounced [pɾofeˈsia]. Often confused with profeta and profesa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | profecía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɾofeˈsia] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for profecía is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾofeˈsia]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,692 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for profecía, with forms such as "porfecía", "pprofecía", and "prfoecía". 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, "profeta", "profesa", "proyecta", 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 profecía, spelled P-R-O-F-E-C-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Predicción clarividente del futuro por resultado de un don especial.
- 2Opinión que se crea sobre algo por las señales que se manifiestan.
- 3Don sobrenatural que, según algunas religiones, permite a sus poseedores conocer anticipadamente el futuro
- 4Predicción hecha en virtud de este don
- 5Por extensión, opinión formada por la interpretación de indicios acerca del futuro
- 6Cualquiera de los libros de la Biblia que contiene profecías₂
- 7Palabras de inspiración divina que son comunicadas por profetas para instruir, corregir o guiar.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porfecía,pprofecía,prfoecía,proefcía,profceía,profecaí,profeccía,profeíca,proffecía,prrofecía,rpofecía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for profecía
Misspelling Variants of "profecía"
Frequency rank: #15,692 in Spanish
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