designación

/[d̪esiɣ̞naˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,140

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

designación is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de designar o nombrar. Pronounced [d̪esiɣ̞naˈsjõn]. It ranks #7,140 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with designaciones.

Key facts for designación
PropertyValue
Headworddesignación
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[d̪esiɣ̞naˈsjõn]
Letters11
Frequency rank#7,140
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for designación is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪esiɣ̞naˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,140 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Acción o efecto de designar o nombrar.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for designación, with forms such as "ddesignación", "decignación", and "deisgnación". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "designaciones", 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 designación, spelled D-E-S-I-G-N-A-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
    Acción o efecto de designar o nombrar.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddesignación,decignación,deisgnación,desginación,desiganción,desiggnación,designacción,designacinó,designaciónn,designacóin,designaicón,designasión,designcaión,designnación,desingación,dessignación,dseignación,edsignación

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for designación

Misspelling Variants of "designación"

ddesignación12decignación11deisgnación11desginación11desiganción11desiggnación12designacción12designacinó11
Misspelling Variants of "designación"

Frequency rank: #7,140 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "designación"?
"designación" is spelled D-E-S-I-G-N-A-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪esiɣ̞naˈsjõn].
What does "designación" mean?
As a noun, "designación" means: Acción o efecto de designar o nombrar.
What words are commonly confused with "designación"?
"designación" is commonly confused with "designaciones". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "designación"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "designación" is [d̪esiɣ̞naˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "designación" come from?
"designación" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter D in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.