contaminación
Letters
13 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,776
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
20
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
contaminación is aSpanishnoun. It means: Alteración de la pureza de una sustancia o medio, en especial si con efectos nocivos. Pronounced [kõn̪t̪aminaˈsjõn]. It ranks #4,776 in Spanish word frequency.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contaminación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪aminaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #4,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for contaminación is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõn̪t̪aminaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,776 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for contaminación, with forms such as "ccontaminación", "cnotaminación", and "conatminación". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 contaminación, spelled C-O-N-T-A-M-I-N-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
- 1Alteración de la pureza de una sustancia o medio, en especial si con efectos nocivos.
- 2Introducir en un entorno elementos tales que perjudiquen la salud, el bienestar o la seguridad del ecosistema y los individuos que allí habitan.
- 3Transmisión de una enfermedad o mal a otro individuo.
- 4Influencia foránea o anómala que se ejerce sobre algo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontaminación,cnotaminación,conatminación,conntaminación,contaimnación,contamianción,contaminacción,contaminacinó,contaminaciónn,contaminacóin,contaminaicón,contaminasión,contamincaión,contaminnación,contamminación,contamniación,contmainación,conttaminación,cotnaminación,ocntaminación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contaminación
Misspelling Variants of "contaminación"
Frequency rank: #4,776 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: