Serbia

/[ˈseɾβ̞ja]/ name

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,915

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Serbia is aSpanishname. It means: País ubicado en la península de los Balcanes, que fue parte de la antigua Yugoslavia. Limita con Croacia, Hungría, Rumania, Bulgaria, Macedonia del Norte, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina y, teóricam... Pronounced [ˈseɾβ̞ja]. It ranks #7,915 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with sería and serie.

Key facts for Serbia
PropertyValue
HeadwordSerbia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA[ˈseɾβ̞ja]
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,915
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Serbia is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈseɾβ̞ja]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,915 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "País ubicado en la península de los Balcanes, que fue parte de la antigua Yugoslavia. Limita con Croacia, Hungría, Rumania, Bulgaria, Macedonia del Norte, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina y, teóricam...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Serbia, with forms such as "cerbia", "esrbia", and "sebria". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sería", "serie", "serio", and more, 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 Serbia, spelled S-E-R-B-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    País ubicado en la península de los Balcanes, que fue parte de la antigua Yugoslavia. Limita con Croacia, Hungría, Rumania, Bulgaria, Macedonia del Norte, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina y, teóricamente, con Albania, pero en realidad con Kosovo (independiente en la práctica).

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cerbia,esrbia,sebria,serbai,serbbia,seriba,serrbia,srebia,sserbia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Serbia

Misspelling Variants of "Serbia"

cerbia6esrbia6sebria6serbai6serbbia7seriba6serrbia7srebia6
Misspelling Variants of "Serbia"

Frequency rank: #7,915 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Serbia"?
"Serbia" is spelled S-E-R-B-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈseɾβ̞ja].
What does "Serbia" mean?
As a name, "Serbia" means: País ubicado en la península de los Balcanes, que fue parte de la antigua Yugoslavia. Limita con Croacia, Hungría, Rumania, Bulgaria, Macedonia del Norte, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina y, teóricam...
What words are commonly confused with "Serbia"?
"Serbia" is commonly confused with "sería", "serie", "serio". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Serbia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Serbia" is [ˈseɾβ̞ja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Serbia" come from?
"Serbia" 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.