afición
[afiˈsjõn]
The verdict
“afición” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,812. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,812
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Inclinación, gusto, vivo interés o amor hacia una persona, actividad o cosa.
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 | afición |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [afiˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “afición” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around afición (IPA [afiˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,812 among 120,137 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for afición, with forms such as "afciión", "affición", and "aficción". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "aviación", "ambición", "audición", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is afición, spelled A-F-I-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Inclinación, gusto, vivo interés o amor hacia una persona, actividad o cosa.
- 2Actividad o cosa hacia la que se siente tal inclinación₁.
- 3Conjunto de personas aficionadas o que tienen gran interés en algo o en alguien, especialmente tratándose de deportes, espectáculos y el arte.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afciión
- affición
- aficción
- aficinó
- aficiónn
- aficóin
- afiicón
- afisión
- aifción
- faición
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of afición - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “afición”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-F-I-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [afiˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “aviación” - see the side-by-side comparison. afición vs aviación
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
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.