autenticación
[awt̪ẽn̪t̪ikaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“autenticación” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #36,939 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #36,939
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 13
- letters
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción o efecto de autenticar
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | autenticación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [awt̪ẽn̪t̪ikaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #36,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “autenticación” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for autenticación is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [awt̪ẽn̪t̪ikaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,939 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for autenticación, with forms such as "atuenticación", "auetnticación", and "autenitcación". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 autenticación, spelled A-U-T-E-N-T-I-C-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de autenticar
- 2Introducción de un nombre de usuario con su respectiva contraseña para acceder a una cuenta de correo, un foro, una página web u otro servicio.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atuenticación,auetnticación,autenitcación,autennticación,autentciación,autentiacción,autenticacción,autenticacinó,autenticaciónn,autenticacóin,autenticaicón,autenticasión,autenticcación,autenticcaión,autentticación,autetnicación,autneticación,auttenticación,uatenticación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of autenticación - 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 “autenticación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-U-T-E-N-T-I-C-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [awt̪ẽn̪t̪ikaˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- 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.