centurión
[sẽn̪t̪uˈɾjõn]
The verdict
“centurión” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #22,976 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #22,976
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Oficial del ejército romano que contaba con mando táctico y administrativo, jefe de una centuria.
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 | centurión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sẽn̪t̪uˈɾjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “centurión” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for centurión is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sẽn̪t̪uˈɾjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #22,976 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Oficial del ejército romano que contaba con mando táctico y administrativo, jefe de una centuria.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for centurión, with forms such as "ccenturión", "cennturión", and "centruión". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "cinturón", "centuria", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 centurión, spelled C-E-N-T-U-R-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Oficial del ejército romano que contaba con mando táctico y administrativo, jefe de una centuria.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccenturión,cennturión,centruión,centturión,centuirón,centurinó,centuriónn,centurrión,centuróin,cenutrión,cetnurión,cneturión,ecnturión,senturión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of centurión - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “centurión”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-E-N-T-U-R-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [sẽn̪t̪uˈɾjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “cinturón” - see the side-by-side comparison. centurión vs cinturón
- 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.