resistencia
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | resistencia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [resisˈt̪ẽnsja] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Acción, efecto o capacidad de resistir
- 2Grupo organizado que se resiste, abierta o clandestinamente, a un gobierno o fuerza de ocupación
- 3Dispositivo en un circuito eléctrico que opone dificultad al paso de una corriente, llevando a la disipación de parte de ésta como calor
- 4Propiedad de oponer esta dificultad
- 5Magnitud de esta dificultad.
- 6Formación psíquica que una persona desarrolla para impedir el acceso a la conciencia de contenidos traumáticos o peligrosos
This word in other languages
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"
Frequency rank: #1,655 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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