definición
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,336
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
definición is aSpanishnoun. It means: La acción y efecto de especificar, decidir, clarificar, definir. Pronounced [d̪efiniˈsjõn]. It ranks #2,336 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with defunción and definieron.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | definición |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪efiniˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for definición is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪efiniˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,336 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for definición, with forms such as "ddefinición", "deffinición", and "defiinción". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "defunción", "definieron", "definiciones", 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 definición, spelled D-E-F-I-N-I-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1La acción y efecto de especificar, decidir, clarificar, definir.
- 2Proposición formal que establece el significado de una palabra o una expresión.
- 3La condición de estar bien delimitado, especificado, definido.
- 4Nitidez de una imagen formada por un sistema óptico.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddefinición,deffinición,defiinción,definciión,definicción,definicinó,definiciónn,definicóin,definiicón,definisión,definnición,defniición,deifnición,dfeinición,edfinición
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for definición
Misspelling Variants of "definición"
Frequency rank: #2,336 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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