erosión

/[eɾoˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,086

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

erosión is aSpanishnoun. It means: Proceso de desgaste de superficie terrestre por fuerzas externas como: el agua, el viento, la radiación solar, la gravitación y actividades de seres vivos . Pronounced [eɾoˈsjõn]. Often confused with emoción and emisión.

Key facts for erosión
PropertyValue
Headworderosión
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[eɾoˈsjõn]
Letters7
Frequency rank#15,086
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for erosión is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [eɾoˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,086 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Proceso de desgaste de superficie terrestre por fuerzas externas como: el agua, el viento, la radiación solar, la gravitación y actividades de seres vivos .".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for erosión, with forms such as "eorsión", "eroción", and "eroisón". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "emoción", "emisión", "eclosión", 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 erosión, spelled E-R-O-S-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
    Proceso de desgaste de superficie terrestre por fuerzas externas como: el agua, el viento, la radiación solar, la gravitación y actividades de seres vivos .

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: eorsión,eroción,eroisón,erosinó,erosiónn,erossión,erosóin,errosión,ersoión,reosión

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for erosión

Misspelling Variants of "erosión"

eorsión7eroción7eroisón7erosinó7erosiónn8erossión8erosóin7errosión8
Misspelling Variants of "erosión"

Frequency rank: #15,086 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "erosión"?
"erosión" is spelled E-R-O-S-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [eɾoˈsjõn].
What does "erosión" mean?
As a noun, "erosión" means: Proceso de desgaste de superficie terrestre por fuerzas externas como: el agua, el viento, la radiación solar, la gravitación y actividades de seres vivos .
What words are commonly confused with "erosión"?
"erosión" is commonly confused with "emoción", "emisión", "eclosión". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "erosión"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "erosión" is [eɾoˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "erosión" come from?
"erosión" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.