avión
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,757
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
avión is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Delichon spp., Riparia spp., Hirundo spp.) Ave insectívora de la familia Hirundinidae de cuerpo fusiforme y alas largas, cola ahorquillada y pico corto. Pronounced [aˈβ̞jõn]. It ranks #1,757 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with avon and avis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | avión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈβ̞jõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for avión is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈβ̞jõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,757 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for avión, with forms such as "abión", "aivón", and "avinó". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "avon", "avis", "aviso", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is avión, spelled A-V-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Delichon spp., Riparia spp., Hirundo spp.) Ave insectívora de la familia Hirundinidae de cuerpo fusiforme y alas largas, cola ahorquillada y pico corto.
- 2(Delichon urbica) Ave canora migratoria de unos 15 cm de largo y aspecto semejante al de una golondrina. Presenta las partes inferiores blancas, mientras que las superiores son negras con matices azulados. La cola es escotada y corta y las patas están recubiertas de plumas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abión,aivón,avinó,aviónn,avvión,avóin,vaión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for avión
Misspelling Variants of "avión"
Frequency rank: #1,757 in Spanish
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