resistencia

/[resisˈt̪ẽnsja]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,655

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

resistencia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción, efecto o capacidad de resistir Pronounced [resisˈt̪ẽnsja]. It ranks #1,655 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with resistencias and residencia.

Key facts for resistencia
PropertyValue
Headwordresistencia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[resisˈt̪ẽnsja]
Letters11
Frequency rank#1,655
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for resistencia is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [resisˈt̪ẽnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,655 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for resistencia, with forms such as "ersistencia", "recistencia", and "reisstencia". 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, "resistencias", "residencia", "resiliencia", 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 resistencia, spelled R-E-S-I-S-T-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

  1. 1
    Acción, efecto o capacidad de resistir
  2. 2
    Grupo organizado que se resiste, abierta o clandestinamente, a un gobierno o fuerza de ocupación
  3. 3
    Dispositivo en un circuito eléctrico que opone dificultad al paso de una corriente, llevando a la disipación de parte de ésta como calor
  4. 4
    Propiedad de oponer esta dificultad
  5. 5
    Magnitud de esta dificultad.
  6. 6
    Formación psíquica que una persona desarrolla para impedir el acceso a la conciencia de contenidos traumáticos o peligrosos

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ersistencia,recistencia,reisstencia,resisetncia,resisstencia,resistecnia,resistencai,resistenccia,resistenica,resistenncia,resistensia,resistnecia,resisttencia,resitsencia,ressistencia,ressitencia,rresistencia,rseistencia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for resistencia

Misspelling Variants of "resistencia"

ersistencia11recistencia11reisstencia11resisetncia11resisstencia12resistecnia11resistencai11resistenccia12
Misspelling Variants of "resistencia"

Frequency rank: #1,655 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "resistencia"?
"resistencia" is spelled R-E-S-I-S-T-E-N-C-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [resisˈt̪ẽnsja].
What does "resistencia" mean?
As a noun, "resistencia" means: Acción, efecto o capacidad de resistir
What words are commonly confused with "resistencia"?
"resistencia" is commonly confused with "resistencias", "residencia", "resiliencia". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "resistencia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "resistencia" is [resisˈt̪ẽnsja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "resistencia" come from?
"resistencia" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.