confiscación

/[kõɱfiskaˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,986

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

19

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

confiscación is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acto o resultado de decomisar objetos, bienes u otro elemento Pronounced [kõɱfiskaˈsjõn]. Often confused with confirmación.

Key facts for confiscación
PropertyValue
Headwordconfiscación
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kõɱfiskaˈsjõn]
Letters12
Frequency rank#29,986
Misspellings tracked19
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of confiscación in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for confiscación is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõɱfiskaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,986 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Acto o resultado de decomisar objetos, bienes u otro elemento".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 19 documented wrong-spelling variants for confiscación, with forms such as "cconfiscación", "cnofiscación", and "cofniscación". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "confirmación", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is confiscación, spelled C-O-N-F-I-S-C-A-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acto o resultado de decomisar objetos, bienes u otro elemento

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: cconfiscación,cnofiscación,cofniscación,conffiscación,conficsación,confisacción,confiscacción,confiscacinó,confiscaciónn,confiscacóin,confiscaicón,confiscasión,confisccación,confisccaión,confisscación,confsicación,conifscación,connfiscación,ocnfiscación

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for confiscación

Misspelling Variants of "confiscación"

cconfiscación13cnofiscación12cofniscación12conffiscación13conficsación12confisacción12confiscacción13confiscacinó12
Misspelling Variants of "confiscación"

Frequency rank: #29,986 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "confiscación"?
"confiscación" is spelled C-O-N-F-I-S-C-A-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [kõɱfiskaˈsjõn].
What does "confiscación" mean?
As a noun, "confiscación" means: Acto o resultado de decomisar objetos, bienes u otro elemento
What words are commonly confused with "confiscación"?
"confiscación" is commonly confused with "confirmación". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "confiscación"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "confiscación" is [kõɱfiskaˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "confiscación" come from?
"confiscación" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.