urgencia

/[uɾˈxẽnsja]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,573

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

urgencia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Condición o carácter de urgente Pronounced [uɾˈxẽnsja]. It ranks #5,573 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with urgencias.

Key facts for urgencia
PropertyValue
Headwordurgencia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[uɾˈxẽnsja]
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,573
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for urgencia is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [uɾˈxẽnsja]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,573 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for urgencia, with forms such as "rugencia", "ugrencia", and "uregncia". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "urgencias", 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 urgencia, spelled U-R-G-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

  1. 1
    Condición o carácter de urgente
  2. 2
    Situación, evento o problema urgente
  3. 3
    Necesidad imperiosa y urgente
  4. 4
    Obligación inmediata de cumplir con los requerimientos estipulados.
  5. 5
    Percepción de una necesidad inmediata, especialmente de la micción, que suele indicar un trastorno

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: rugencia,ugrencia,uregncia,urgecnia,urgencai,urgenccia,urgenica,urgenncia,urgensia,urggencia,urgnecia,urrgencia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for urgencia

Misspelling Variants of "urgencia"

rugencia8ugrencia8uregncia8urgecnia8urgencai8urgenccia9urgenica8urgenncia9
Misspelling Variants of "urgencia"

Frequency rank: #5,573 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "urgencia"?
"urgencia" is spelled U-R-G-E-N-C-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [uɾˈxẽnsja].
What does "urgencia" mean?
As a noun, "urgencia" means: Condición o carácter de urgente
What words are commonly confused with "urgencia"?
"urgencia" is commonly confused with "urgencias". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "urgencia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "urgencia" is [uɾˈxẽnsja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "urgencia" come from?
"urgencia" 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.