sintonía
[sĩn̪t̪oˈnia]
The verdict
“sintonía” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #16,706 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #16,706
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Composición musical preexistente o compuesta ex profeso para su emisión recurrente en un punto concreto de una producción audiovisual.
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 | sintonía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sĩn̪t̪oˈnia] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sintonía” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sintonía is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sĩn̪t̪oˈnia]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,706 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Composición musical preexistente o compuesta ex profeso para su emisión recurrente en un punto concreto de una producción audiovisual.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sintonía, with forms such as "cintonía", "isntonía", and "sinntonía". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "sintonizar", "síntoma", "sinfonía", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is sintonía, spelled S-I-N-T-O-N-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Composición musical preexistente o compuesta ex profeso para su emisión recurrente en un punto concreto de una producción audiovisual.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cintonía,isntonía,sinntonía,sinotnía,sintnoía,sintonaí,sintonnía,sintoína,sinttonía,sitnonía,snitonía,ssintonía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sintonía - 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 “sintonía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-I-N-T-O-N-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [sĩn̪t̪oˈnia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sintonizar” - see the side-by-side comparison. sintonía vs sintonizar
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.