contravención
[kõn̪t̪ɾaβ̞ẽnˈsjõn]
The verdict
“contravención” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #54,789 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,789
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción y efecto de contravenir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-contravencion · contravención · Spanish
contravención · rank #54,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,789
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH contraproduce…
Nearest frequency peer: contraproducentes (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “contravención”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- consumieron
consumieron
45,217 corpus weight
- contemplen
contemplen
45,214 corpus weight
- contraprodu…
contraproducentes
45,213 corpus weight
- contravenci…
contravención
45,212 corpus weight
- convexa
convexa
45,210 corpus weight
- corroboran
corroboran
45,208 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “contravención” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contravención |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪ɾaβ̞ẽnˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #54,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “contravención” en español
Rare enough to double-check
contravención is uncommon Spanish at frequency #54,789 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kõn̪t̪ɾaβ̞ẽnˈsjõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
contravención doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is contravención, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-V-E-N-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción y efecto de contravenir.
- 2Conducta antijurídica que pone en peligro algún bien jurídico protegible, pero que es considerado de menor gravedad y que, por tanto, no es tipificada como delito.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).