communication
/kɔ.my.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/
The verdict
“communication” has 17 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #40,199. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,199
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Comunicación
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 | communication |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɔ.my.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #40,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “communication” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around communication (IPA /kɔ.my.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,199 among 77,812 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Comunicación".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for communication, with forms such as "ccommunication", "cmomunication", and "commnuication". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "comunicación", "communications", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 communication, spelled C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Comunicación
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccommunication
- cmomunication
- commnuication
- commuincation
- communciation
- communiaction
- communicaiton
- communicatino
- communicationn
- communicatoin
- communicattion
- communiccation
- communictaion
- communnication
- comumnication
- comunication
- ocmmunication
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of communication - 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 “communication”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-M-M-U-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kɔ.my.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “comunicación” - see the side-by-side comparison. communication vs comunicación
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
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.