defección
[d̪efekˈsjõn]
The verdict
“defección” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #91,814 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,814
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deserción o abandono con deslealtad de una organización o un grupo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-defeccion · defección · Spanish
defección · rank #91,814 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,814
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH decrete
Nearest frequency peer: decrete (-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 “defección”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- decantan
decantan
8,191 corpus weight
- decomisado
decomisado
8,190 corpus weight
- decreció
decreció
8,189 corpus weight
- decrete
decrete
8,188 corpus weight
- defección
defección
8,187 corpus weight
- deliberadas
deliberadas
8,186 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “defección” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | defección |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪efekˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “defección” en español
Rare enough to double-check
defección is uncommon Spanish at frequency #91,814 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [d̪efekˈsjõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deserción o abandono con deslealtad de una organización o un grupo.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for defección, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is defección, spelled D-E-F-E-C-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Deserción o abandono con deslealtad de una organización o un grupo.
This word in other languages
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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