secretaría
[sekɾet̪aˈɾia]
The verdict
“secretaría” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #2,844. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,844
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,953
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - El cargo que es ejercido por un secretario o secretaria.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | secretaría |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sekɾet̪aˈɾia] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “secretaría” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around secretaría (IPA [sekɾet̪aˈɾia]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,844 among 34,953 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for secretaría, with forms such as "cecretaría", "escretaría", and "sceretaría". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sectaria", "secretario", "secretarios", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is secretaría, spelled S-E-C-R-E-T-A-R-Í-A.
Definition
- 1El cargo que es ejercido por un secretario o secretaria.
- 2Despacho donde ejerce sus funciones un secretario o secretaria.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cecretaría
- escretaría
- sceretaría
- seccretaría
- secertaría
- secreatría
- secretaraí
- secretarría
- secretaíra
- secretraía
- secrettaría
- secrretaría
- secrtearía
- sercetaría
- ssecretaría
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of secretaría - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “secretaría”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-E-C-R-E-T-A-R-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [sekɾet̪aˈɾia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sectaria” - see the side-by-side comparison. secretaría vs sectaria
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
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.