apelación
[apelaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“apelación” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #8,468 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,468
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción de apelar.
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 | apelación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [apelaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “apelación” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for apelación is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [apelaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,468 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Acción de apelar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for apelación, with forms such as "aeplación", "apealción", and "apelacción". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "apelaciones", "aleación", "ablación", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 apelación, spelled A-P-E-L-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción de apelar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aeplación,apealción,apelacción,apelacinó,apelaciónn,apelacóin,apelaicón,apelasión,apelcaión,apellación,apleación,appelación,paelación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apelación - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “apelación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-P-E-L-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [apelaˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “apelaciones” - see the side-by-side comparison. apelación vs apelaciones
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.