desviación

Name: desviación, Spanish Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[d̪esβ̞jaˈsjõn]

/[d̪esβ̞jaˈsjõn]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“desviación” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #17,406. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,406
frequency rank, Spanish: 4,885
“D” headwords: 16
tracked misspellings: 3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de desviar.

Corpus desk

Index ES-desviacion · desviación · Spanish

desviación · rank #17,406 · 16 variants · 3 confusables

FREQ-MID #17,406
LEN-MEGA 10 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
VAR-HIGH 16 variants
BOOK-MID 4,885
PHOTO-FINISH desplazamient…

Nearest frequency peer: desplazamientos (-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.

desarrolle

82,599
despedirse

82,597
desplazamie…

82,596
desviación

82,595
dialectos

82,594
dictar

82,592

What this shows “desviación” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

desviación vs desviaciones

75% similar

desviación vs desolación

80% similar

desviación vs destilación

82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for desviación
Property	Value
Headword	desviación
Language	Spanish
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[d̪esβ̞jaˈsjõn]
Letters	10
Frequency rank	#17,406
Misspellings tracked	16
Confusable pairs	3
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “desviación”

De izquierda a derecha: las pocas palabras que cargan el habla diaria, luego la cola larga casi invisible.desviacióncae aquí:

#17,406

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Los ticks avanzan en logaritmo; cada uno es del orden de diez veces más raro. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “desplazamientos” (#17,405), “dialectos” (#17,407), “despedirse” (#17,404). Entre 4,885 lemas con “D”, “desviación” va en #17,406. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around desviación (IPA [d̪esβ̞jaˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,406 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for desviación, with forms such as "ddesviación", "desbiación", and "desivación". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "desviaciones", "desolación", "destilación", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is desviación, spelled D-E-S-V-I-A-C-I-Ó-N.

Definition

1
Acción o efecto de desviar.
2
Dícese del cambio de la posición natural de los órganos.
3
Cambio de trayecto.
4
Tendencia de alguien que se aparta de lo considerado normal.
5
Diferencia entre un valor observado y su respectivo valor esperado.
6
Ángulo entre el geoide y el esferoide de la Tierra, o el ángulo entre la vertical y la normal de la esferoide.
7
Movimiento, generalmente de sacrificio, que fuerza a una pieza enemiga a dejar de defender una pieza o una casilla de mayor importancia.

This word in other languages

deviation(English)déviation(Français)Abweichung(Deutsch)desvio(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ddesviación
desbiación
desivación
dessviación
desvaición
desviacción
desviacinó
desviaciónn
desviacóin
desviaicón
desviasión
desvicaión
desvviación
devsiación
dseviación
edsviación

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of desviación - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "desviación"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "desviación"?

"desviación" is spelled D-E-S-V-I-A-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪esβ̞jaˈsjõn].

What does "desviación" mean?

As a noun, "desviación" means: Acción o efecto de desviar.

What words are commonly confused with "desviación"?

"desviación" is commonly confused with "desviaciones", "desolación", "destilación". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "desviación"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "desviación" is [d̪esβ̞jaˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "desviación" come from?

"desviación" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "desviación", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

despedirse#17,404 desarrolle#17,402 diecinueve#17,410 ecológicos#17,416

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

demográfica16 variants elementales16 variants concentrar16 variants frustrante16 variants