articulación
[aɾt̪ikulaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“articulación” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #12,307 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #12,307
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - El acto y el proceso de realizar los ajustes y movimientos necesarios para emitir un sonido en el proceso del habla.
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 | articulación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɾt̪ikulaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #12,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “articulación” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for articulación is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɾt̪ikulaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,307 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 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for articulación, with forms such as "aritculación", "arrticulación", and "artciulación". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "articulaciones", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is articulación, spelled A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1El acto y el proceso de realizar los ajustes y movimientos necesarios para emitir un sonido en el proceso del habla.
- 2Cualquier sonido del habla.
- 3La acción y el efecto de unir dos partes rígidas con una que permite el movimiento.
- 4Dispositivo que une dos partes fijas permitiendo la rotación de las mismas a su alrededor.
- 5Unión entre dos huesos en los vertebrados o entre dos segmentos en los artrópodos.
- 6Unión entre dos segmentos de una planta por ejemplo en el punto de unión de una hoja con la rama.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aritculación,arrticulación,artciulación,articculación,articluación,articualción,articulacción,articulacinó,articulaciónn,articulacóin,articulaicón,articulasión,articulcaión,articullación,artiuclación,artticulación,atriculación,raticulación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of articulación - 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 “articulación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aɾt̪ikulaˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “articulaciones” - see the side-by-side comparison. articulación vs articulaciones
- 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.