eliminación
[eliminaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“eliminación” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #4,416. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,416
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 101,141
- “E” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción o efecto de eliminar.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eliminación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eliminaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eliminación” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around eliminación (IPA [eliminaˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,416 among 101,141 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Acción o efecto de eliminar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for eliminación, with forms such as "eilminación", "eliimnación", and "elimianción". 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, "eliminaron", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is eliminación, spelled E-L-I-M-I-N-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de eliminar.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eilminación
- eliimnación
- elimianción
- eliminacción
- eliminacinó
- eliminaciónn
- eliminacóin
- eliminaicón
- eliminasión
- elimincaión
- eliminnación
- elimminación
- elimniación
- elliminación
- elmiinación
- leiminación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of eliminación - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Using “eliminación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-L-I-M-I-N-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [eliminaˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “eliminaron” - see the side-by-side comparison. eliminación vs eliminaron
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.