decisión

/[d̪esiˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#890

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

decisión is aSpanishnoun. It means: Determinación, resolución, transacción de una controversia, fallo, sobre algo que se discute. Pronounced [d̪esiˈsjõn]. It ranks #890 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with división and decisivo.

Key facts for decisión
PropertyValue
Headworddecisión
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[d̪esiˈsjõn]
Letters8
Frequency rank#890
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of decisión in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for decisión is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪esiˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #890 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for decisión, with forms such as "dceisión", "ddecisión", and "deccisión". 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, "división", "decisivo", "dimisión", 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 decisión, spelled D-E-C-I-S-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Determinación, resolución, transacción de una controversia, fallo, sobre algo que se discute.
  2. 2
    Audacia o firmeza en la acción.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: dceisión,ddecisión,deccisión,decición,deciisón,decisinó,decisiónn,decissión,decisóin,decsiión,deicsión,desisión,edcisión

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for decisión

Misspelling Variants of "decisión"

dceisión8ddecisión9deccisión9decición8deciisón8decisinó8decisiónn9decissión9
Misspelling Variants of "decisión"

Frequency rank: #890 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "decisión"?
"decisión" is spelled D-E-C-I-S-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪esiˈsjõn].
What does "decisión" mean?
As a noun, "decisión" means: Determinación, resolución, transacción de una controversia, fallo, sobre algo que se discute.
What words are commonly confused with "decisión"?
"decisión" is commonly confused with "división", "decisivo", "dimisión". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "decisión"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "decisión" is [d̪esiˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "decisión" come from?
"decisión" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.