confesión
[kõɱfeˈsjõn]
The verdict
“confesión” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,692. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,692
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción o efecto de confesar o de confesarse.
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 | confesión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõɱfeˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “confesión” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around confesión (IPA [kõɱfeˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,692 among 77,812 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for confesión, with forms such as "cconfesión", "cnofesión", and "cofnesión". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "confesó", "confusion", "congestión", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 confesión, spelled C-O-N-F-E-S-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de confesar o de confesarse.
- 2Revelación que hace una persona sobre lo que sabe, ya sea de forma espontánea o forzada.
- 3Dícese del sacramento de la penitencia, en algunas religiones cristianas.
- 4Manifestación pública de la fe profesada.
- 5Declaración particular del inculpado o del litigante ante el juez, de manera formal.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconfesión
- cnofesión
- cofnesión
- conefsión
- confeción
- confeisón
- confesinó
- confesiónn
- confessión
- confesóin
- conffesión
- confseión
- connfesión
- ocnfesión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confesión - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “confesión”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-N-F-E-S-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kõɱfeˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “confesó” - see the side-by-side comparison. confesión vs confesó
- 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.