conjunción
[kõŋxũnˈsjõn]
The verdict
“conjunción” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #20,937 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #20,937
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción y efecto de unirse dos o más cosas.
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 | conjunción |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõŋxũnˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #20,937 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “conjunción” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for conjunción is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõŋxũnˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,937 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for conjunción, with forms such as "cconjunción", "cnojunción", and "cojnunción". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "convención", "contención", "conducción", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is conjunción, spelled C-O-N-J-U-N-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción y efecto de unirse dos o más cosas.
- 2Encuentro aparente de dos o más astros en el cielo, por encontrarse alineados con respecto al punto de observación.
- 3Encuentro de dos o más astros en el mismo lugar del zodíaco.
- 4Palabra invariable que sirve para unir dos o más palabras u oraciones.
- 5Unión de varias unidades lingüistica de estructura, cada una se denomina proposición y se unen por medio de la partícula "y", que generalmente se simboliza con &.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconjunción,cnojunción,cojnunción,conjjunción,conjnución,conjucnión,conjuncción,conjuncinó,conjunciónn,conjuncóin,conjunicón,conjunnción,conjunsión,connjunción,conujnción,ocnjunción
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of conjunción - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “conjunción”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-N-J-U-N-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kõŋxũnˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “convención” - see the side-by-side comparison. conjunción vs convención
- 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.