sistema
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#220
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
sistema is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto de reglas, principios, ideas o cosas, que están unidas por un criterio común y tienen una finalidad determinada. Pronounced [sisˈt̪ema]. It ranks #220 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with system and sister.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sistema |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sisˈt̪ema] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sistema is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sisˈt̪ema]. Corpus data places it at rank #220 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for sistema, with forms such as "cistema", "isstema", and "sisetma". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "system", "sister", "systems", 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 sistema, spelled S-I-S-T-E-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de reglas, principios, ideas o cosas, que están unidas por un criterio común y tienen una finalidad determinada.
- 2Conjunto de órganos que cumplen una de las funciones básicas de un organismo vivo.
- 3Manera o forma de proceder para realizar cierta tarea o medio para hacerlo.
- 4Más concretamente, el formado por el aparato del Estado con todas sus instituciones y burocracia.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cistema,isstema,sisetma,sisstema,sisteam,sistemma,sistmea,sisttema,sitsema,ssistema,ssitema
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sistema
Misspelling Variants of "sistema"
Frequency rank: #220 in Spanish
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