advocación
The verdict
“advocación” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #42,780 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #42,780
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Patrocinio o tutela de un santo o la Virgen a un lugar religioso (capilla, altar, comunidad, etc.) que le es consagrado y que toma su nombre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | advocación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [að̞β̞okaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “advocación” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for advocación is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [að̞β̞okaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,780 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for advocación, with forms such as "adbocación", "addvocación", and "adovcación". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "adoración", 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 advocación, spelled A-D-V-O-C-A-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Patrocinio o tutela de un santo o la Virgen a un lugar religioso (capilla, altar, comunidad, etc.) que le es consagrado y que toma su nombre.
- 2Nombre que se da a las figuras religiosas y a las fechas en que se veneran.
- 3Denominación complementaria de la Virgen o un santo, de acuerdo con los misterios, atributos, virtudes propias, o lugares en que se halló una imagen, u otra relación como el lugar de un milagro, etc.
- 4Profesión de abogado
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: adbocación,addvocación,adovcación,advcoación,advoacción,advocacción,advocacinó,advocaciónn,advocacóin,advocaicón,advocasión,advoccación,advoccaión,advvocación,avdocación,davocación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of advocación - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "advocación"
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 “advocación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-D-V-O-C-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [að̞β̞okaˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “adoración” - see the side-by-side comparison. advocación vs adoración
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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