descripción

/[d̪eskɾipˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,160

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

descripción is aSpanishnoun. It means: Explicación, de manera ordenada y detallada de las cualidades de una persona , animal u objeto. Pronounced [d̪eskɾipˈsjõn]. It ranks #2,160 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with description and descripciones.

Key facts for descripción
PropertyValue
Headworddescripción
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[d̪eskɾipˈsjõn]
Letters11
Frequency rank#2,160
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for descripción is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eskɾipˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,160 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Explicación, de manera ordenada y detallada de las cualidades de una persona , animal u objeto.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for descripción, with forms such as "ddescripción", "decsripción", and "desccripción". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "description", "descripciones", 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 descripción, spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-P-C-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
    Explicación, de manera ordenada y detallada de las cualidades de una persona , animal u objeto.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddescripción,decsripción,desccripción,descirpción,descricpión,descripcción,descripcinó,descripciónn,descripcóin,descripicón,descrippción,descripsión,descrpición,descrripción,desrcipción,desscripción,dsecripción,edscripción

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for descripción

Misspelling Variants of "descripción"

ddescripción12decsripción11desccripción12descirpción11descricpión11descripcción12descripcinó11descripciónn12
Misspelling Variants of "descripción"

Frequency rank: #2,160 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "descripción"?
"descripción" is spelled D-E-S-C-R-I-P-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪eskɾipˈsjõn].
What does "descripción" mean?
As a noun, "descripción" means: Explicación, de manera ordenada y detallada de las cualidades de una persona , animal u objeto.
What words are commonly confused with "descripción"?
"descripción" is commonly confused with "description", "descripciones". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "descripción"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "descripción" is [d̪eskɾipˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "descripción" come from?
"descripción" 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.