cognición
[koɣ̞niˈsjõn]
The verdict
“cognición” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #53,429 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #53,429
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Proceso y resultado de conocer (usar las facultades intelectuales para tener conciencia o noción de las cosas).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cognición |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koɣ̞niˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cognición” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cognición is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koɣ̞niˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,429 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for cognición in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is cognición, spelled C-O-G-N-I-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Proceso y resultado de conocer (usar las facultades intelectuales para tener conciencia o noción de las cosas).
- 2Capacidad para recibir, recordar, comprender, organizar, procesar y usar la información recogida por los sentidos.
- 3Percepción mental o intuición sobre el ser total e individual de algo o de alguien.
This word in other languages
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 “cognición”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-G-N-I-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [koɣ̞niˈsjõn] (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.