continuación
[kõn̪t̪inwaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“continuación” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #1,542 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,542
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción o efecto de continuar.
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 | continuación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪inwaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #1,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “continuación” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for continuación is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõn̪t̪inwaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,542 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Acción o efecto de continuar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for continuación, with forms such as "ccontinuación", "cnotinuación", and "conitnuación". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "continuaron", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 continuación, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de continuar.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontinuación,cnotinuación,conitnuación,conntinuación,continaución,continnuación,continuacción,continuacinó,continuaciónn,continuacóin,continuaicón,continuasión,continucaión,contiunación,contniuación,conttinuación,cotninuación,ocntinuación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of continuación - 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 “continuación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-N-T-I-N-U-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kõn̪t̪inwaˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “continuaron” - see the side-by-side comparison. continuación vs continuaron
- 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.