reticencia
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,943
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
reticencia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Efecto de decir sólo en parte, comúnmente con malicia, que se oculta o se calla algo que debiera decirse. Pronounced [ret̪iˈsẽnsja]. Often confused with residencia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reticencia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ret̪iˈsẽnsja] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #38,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for reticencia is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ret̪iˈsẽnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #38,943 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for reticencia, with forms such as "erticencia", "reitcencia", and "retciencia". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "residencia", 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 reticencia, spelled R-E-T-I-C-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
- 1Efecto de decir sólo en parte, comúnmente con malicia, que se oculta o se calla algo que debiera decirse.
- 2Efecto de dar a entender claramente que se oculta o se calla algo que debiera decirse.
- 3Hesitación, reserva.
- 4Figura literaria que consiste en dejar incompleta una frase o no acabar de aclarar una idea, dando, sin embargo, a entender el sentido de lo que no se dice, y a veces más de lo que se calla.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erticencia,reitcencia,retciencia,reticcencia,reticecnia,reticencai,reticenccia,reticenica,reticenncia,reticnecia,retiecncia,retisensia,retticencia,rreticencia,rteicencia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for reticencia
Misspelling Variants of "reticencia"
Frequency rank: #38,943 in Spanish
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