regalía
[reɣ̞aˈlia]
The verdict
“regalía” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #91,307 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #91,307
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Prerrogativa regia, que comprendía los derechos inherentes y exclusivos del poder soberano del rey.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regalía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reɣ̞aˈlia] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #91,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “regalía” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for regalía is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reɣ̞aˈlia]. Corpus data places it at rank #91,307 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for regalía in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is regalía, spelled R-E-G-A-L-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Prerrogativa regia, que comprendía los derechos inherentes y exclusivos del poder soberano del rey.
- 2Privilegio propio de una persona.
- 3Remuneración adicional al sueldo que reciben algunos empleados.
- 4Privilegios otorgados por el líder de la iglesia católica a algunos reyes o mandatarios.
- 5Porcentaje de los ingresos o bien una cuota fija que se paga al dueño de un derecho como contraprestación por el uso de este.
- 6Pago que el editor hace al autor de una obra en relación a los ingresos derivados de la explotación comercial de la misma.
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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Using “regalía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-E-G-A-L-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [reɣ̞aˈlia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.