elección
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,242
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
elección is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de elegir. Pronounced [elekˈsjõn]. It ranks #1,242 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with erección and exención.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | elección |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [elekˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for elección is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [elekˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,242 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 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for elección, with forms such as "eelcción", "elceción", and "eleccinó". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "erección", "exención", "electrón", and more, 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 elección, spelled E-L-E-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 o efecto de elegir.
- 2Reunión de sufragios.
- 3Nombramiento de alguna persona, que regularmente se hace por votos para algún cargo, comisión, etc.
- 4Deliberación, libertad para obrar.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eelcción,elceción,eleccinó,elecciónn,eleccóin,elecicón,eleción,elecsión,ellección,leección
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for elección
Misspelling Variants of "elección"
Frequency rank: #1,242 in Spanish
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