flexión
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,351
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
flexión is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción y efecto de flexionar o flexionarse, doblando el cuerpo o una parte de él. Pronounced [flekˈsjõn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flexión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [flekˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for flexión is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [flekˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #31,351 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for flexión, with forms such as "felxión", "fflexión", and "fleixón". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 flexión, spelled F-L-E-X-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción y efecto de flexionar o flexionarse, doblando el cuerpo o una parte de él.
- 2Deformación que una fuerza ejerce sobre un sólido elástico.
- 3Alteración que experimenta una palabra para indicar diversos aspectos gramaticales, como el modo y tiempo en los verbos o el número y caso en los sustantivos.
- 4Movimiento que reduce el ángulo de alguna articulación a lo largo del plano sagital.
- 5Por extensión, ejercicio gimnástico que consiste principalmente en movimientos de flexión₁.
- 6Curvatura suave de un estrato terrestre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: felxión,fflexión,fleixón,flexinó,flexiónn,flexxión,flexóin,fllexión,flxeión,lfexión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for flexión
Misspelling Variants of "flexión"
Frequency rank: #31,351 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter F in our Spanish index: