contusión
[kõn̪t̪uˈsjõn]
The verdict
“contusión” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #56,916 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,916
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lesión en el cuerpo, ocasionada por golpe u otras razones, que no causa herida exterior.
Corpus desk
Index ES-contusion · contusión · Spanish
contusión · rank #56,916 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,916
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH convalecencia
Nearest frequency peer: convalecencia (+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 “contusión”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- continuarían
continuarían
43,089 corpus weight
- contracultu…
contracultura
43,088 corpus weight
- contrarrefo…
contrarreforma
43,087 corpus weight
- contusión
contusión
43,085 corpus weight
- convalecenc…
convalecencia
43,084 corpus weight
- convocaba
convocaba
43,083 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “contusión” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contusión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪uˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “contusión” en español
Rare enough to double-check
contusión is uncommon Spanish at frequency #56,916 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kõn̪t̪uˈsjõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lesión en el cuerpo, ocasionada por golpe u otras razones, que no causa herida exterior.".
contusión has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 contusión, spelled C-O-N-T-U-S-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Lesión en el cuerpo, ocasionada por golpe u otras razones, que no causa herida exterior.
Synonyms
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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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