William

//ˈwɪl.jəm// name

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,132

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

William is aSpanishname. It means: Nombre de pila de varón, equivalente del español Guillermo. Pronounced /ˈwɪl.jəm/. It ranks #4,132 in Spanish word frequency.

Key facts for William
PropertyValue
HeadwordWilliam
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA/ˈwɪl.jəm/
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,132
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for William is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈwɪl.jəm/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,132 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nombre de pila de varón, equivalente del español Guillermo.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for William, with forms such as "iwlliam", "wiliam", and "wililam". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 William, spelled W-I-L-L-I-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nombre de pila de varón, equivalente del español Guillermo.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: iwlliam,wiliam,wililam,willaim,williamm,willima,wliliam,wwilliam

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for William

Misspelling Variants of "William"

iwlliam7wiliam6wililam7willaim7williamm8willima7wliliam7wwilliam8
Misspelling Variants of "William"

Frequency rank: #4,132 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "William"?
"William" is spelled W-I-L-L-I-A-M. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈwɪl.jəm/.
What does "William" mean?
As a name, "William" means: Nombre de pila de varón, equivalente del español Guillermo.
What are common misspellings of "William"?
Common misspellings include "iwlliam", "wiliam", "wililam", "willaim", "williamm". The correct spelling is "William".
How do you pronounce "William"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "William" is /ˈwɪl.jəm/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "William" come from?
"William" 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. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.