asignación

[asiɣ̞naˈsjõn]

/[asiɣ̞naˈsjõn]/ noun

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The verdict

“asignación” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,665. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,665
frequency rank, Spanish
7,704
“A” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de asignar.

Corpus desk

Index ES-asignacion · asignación · Spanish

asignación · rank #7,665 · 16 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,665
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 7,704
  • PHOTO-FINISH asegurado

Nearest frequency peer: asegurado (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “asignación”

Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino

corpus weight

What this shows “asignación” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

asignación vs asignaron
70% similar
asignación vs asignaciones
75% similar
asignación vs afinación
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for asignación
PropertyValue
Headwordasignación
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[asiɣ̞naˈsjõn]
Letters10
Frequency rank#7,665
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “asignación”

De izquierda a derecha: las pocas palabras que cargan el habla diaria, luego la cola larga casi invisible.asignacióncae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

La escala es logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× más rara). En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “asegurado” (#7,664), “atacado” (#7,666), “arranque” (#7,663). Entre 7,704 lemas con “A”, “asignación” va en #7,665. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around asignación (IPA [asiɣ̞naˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,665 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for asignación, with forms such as "acignación", "aisgnación", and "asginación". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "asignaron", "asignaciones", "afinación", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is asignación, spelled A-S-I-G-N-A-C-I-Ó-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acción o efecto de asignar.
  2. 2
    Cantidad de dinero determinada como sueldo, atribución, paga u otro concepto.
  3. 3
    En particular, deberes₁ que el docente asigna a sus alumnos para realizar independientemente, como complemento de la clase.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how asignación appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Y en 1913, cuando enteró los sesenta y cinco, se retiró, recibió un buen cheque, una asignación anual, un gran reloj de pared y un hermoso escritorio ….

Synonyms

deber

This word in other languages

assignation(English)assignation(Français)Zuteilung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acignación
  • aisgnación
  • asginación
  • asiganción
  • asiggnación
  • asignacción
  • asignacinó
  • asignaciónn
  • asignacóin
  • asignaicón
  • asignasión
  • asigncaión
  • asignnación
  • asingación
  • assignación
  • saignación

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of asignación - 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.

acignación1aisgnación2asginación2asiganción2asiggnación1asignacción1asignacinó2asignaciónn1
Edit distance from "asignación"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "asignación"?
"asignación" is spelled A-S-I-G-N-A-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [asiɣ̞naˈsjõn].
What does "asignación" mean?
As a noun, "asignación" means: Acción o efecto de asignar.
What words are commonly confused with "asignación"?
"asignación" is commonly confused with "asignaron", "asignaciones", "afinación". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "asignación"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "asignación" is [asiɣ̞naˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "asignación" come from?
"asignación" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "asignación", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

comenzamos#7,685transforma#7,637tendríamos#7,633desacuerdo#7,703

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

comisionado16 variantsdiscutiendo16 variantsobligatoria16 variantsincidentes16 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list