excreción
[ekskɾeˈsjõn]
The verdict
“excreción” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #54,885 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #54,885
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción y efecto de excretar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excreción |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ekskɾeˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “excreción” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for excreción is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ekskɾeˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #54,885 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for excreción in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is excreción, spelled E-X-C-R-E-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción y efecto de excretar.
- 2Proceso biológico por el cual un ser vivo elimina de su organismo las sustancias tóxicas, adquiridas por la alimentación o producidas por su metabolismo.
This word in other languages
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 “excreción”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-X-C-R-E-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ekskɾeˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.