referencia
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,151
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
referencia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acto de referirse o hacer alusión a algo. Pronounced [refeˈɾẽnsja]. It ranks #1,151 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with reverencia and referencias.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | referencia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [refeˈɾẽnsja] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for referencia is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [refeˈɾẽnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,151 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 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for referencia, with forms such as "erferencia", "reefrencia", and "refeerncia". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "reverencia", "referencias", "reference", 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 referencia, spelled R-E-F-E-R-E-N-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acto de referirse o hacer alusión a algo.
- 2Reseña, relato o narración.
- 3Base o apoyo en el desarrollo de algo específico.
- 4Documento expedido a una persona a modo de recomendación para hallar empleo u otorgar préstamos bancarios.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erferencia,reefrencia,refeerncia,referecnia,referencai,referenccia,referenica,referenncia,referensia,refernecia,referrencia,refferencia,refreencia,rfeerencia,rreferencia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for referencia
Misspelling Variants of "referencia"
Frequency rank: #1,151 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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