cuestión
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#962
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
cuestión is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pregunta que se hace o propone para averiguar la verdad de algo controvirtiéndolo. Pronounced [kwesˈt̪jõn]. It ranks #962 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cuestiona and cuestionó.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuestión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kwesˈt̪jõn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #962 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cuestión is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kwesˈt̪jõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #962 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuestión, with forms such as "ccuestión", "ceustión", and "cuesitón". 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 also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "cuestiona", "cuestionó", "cuestiones", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 cuestión, spelled C-U-E-S-T-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pregunta que se hace o propone para averiguar la verdad de algo controvirtiéndolo.
- 2Riña, pendencia.
- 3Cosa cualquiera de la que hay que ocuparse.
- 4Cuestión de tormento.
- 5Oposición de términos lógicos o de razones respecto a un mismo tema, que exigen detenido estudio para resolver con acierto.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccuestión,ceustión,cuesitón,cuesstión,cuestinó,cuestiónn,cuesttión,cuestóin,cuetsión,cusetión,ucestión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuestión
Misspelling Variants of "cuestión"
Frequency rank: #962 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: