destrucción
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,175
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
destrucción is aSpanishnoun. It means: acción y efecto de destruir Pronounced [d̪est̪ɾukˈsjõn]. It ranks #3,175 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with distracción.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | destrucción |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪est̪ɾukˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #3,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for destrucción is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪est̪ɾukˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,175 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for destrucción, with forms such as "ddestrucción", "desrtucción", and "desstrucción". 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, "distracción", 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 destrucción, spelled D-E-S-T-R-U-C-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1acción y efecto de destruir
- 2daño muy grande, ruina, pérdida de grandes dimensiones
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddestrucción,desrtucción,desstrucción,destrcución,destrrucción,destruccinó,destrucciónn,destruccóin,destrucicón,destrución,destrucsión,desttrucción,desturcción,detsrucción,dsetrucción,edstrucción
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for destrucción
Misspelling Variants of "destrucción"
Frequency rank: #3,175 in Spanish
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