afección
[afekˈsjõn]
The verdict
“afección” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #23,290 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #23,290
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Apego o inclinación de una persona a otra por afecto o cariño.
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 | afección |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [afekˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “afección” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for afección is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [afekˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,290 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for afección, with forms such as "aefcción", "afceción", and "afeccinó". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "afición", "atención", "aleación", 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 afección, spelled A-F-E-C-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Apego o inclinación de una persona a otra por afecto o cariño.
- 2Alteración morbosa de algún componente del organismo humano.
- 3Señal o marca que hace alguna cosa en otra hasta modificarla.
- 4Acción o efecto de reservar un beneficio eclesiástico para ciertas dignidades, especialmente la del Papa.
- 5Inclinación del ánimo hacia uno de los sentimientos del alma, como el odio, la ira, etc., y en particular el del amor o el cariño.
- 6Zona en una carretera, consistente en dos franjas de terrenos a ambos lados de la misma, delimitadas interiormente por la zona de servidumbre y exteriormente por dos líneas paralelas a las aristas exteriores de la explanación a una distancia que va desde 50 a 100 metros.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aefcción,afceción,afeccinó,afecciónn,afeccóin,afecicón,afeción,afecsión,affección,faección
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of afección - 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 "afección"
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 “afección”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-F-E-C-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [afekˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “afición” - see the side-by-side comparison. afección vs afición
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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