bastión
[basˈt̪jõn]
The verdict
“bastión” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #21,572 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #21,572
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Una fortificación exterior, situada generalmente en las esquinas de los muros de una fortaleza, con el fin de defender.
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 | bastión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [basˈt̪jõn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bastión” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bastión is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [basˈt̪jõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,572 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Una fortificación exterior, situada generalmente en las esquinas de los muros de una fortaleza, con el fin de defender.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bastión, with forms such as "abstión", "basitón", and "basstión". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "batió", "basto", "Boston", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is bastión, spelled B-A-S-T-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Una fortificación exterior, situada generalmente en las esquinas de los muros de una fortaleza, con el fin de defender.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abstión,basitón,basstión,bastinó,bastiónn,basttión,bastóin,batsión,bbastión,bsatión,vastión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bastión - 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 “bastión”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-A-S-T-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [basˈt̪jõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “batió” - see the side-by-side comparison. bastión vs batió
- 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.