flexión

/[flekˈsjõn]/ noun

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].

Key facts for flexión
PropertyValue
Headwordflexión
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[flekˈsjõn]
Letters7
Frequency rank#31,351
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Acción y efecto de flexionar o flexionarse, doblando el cuerpo o una parte de él.
  2. 2
    Deformación que una fuerza ejerce sobre un sólido elástico.
  3. 3
    Alteración 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.
  4. 4
    Movimiento que reduce el ángulo de alguna articulación a lo largo del plano sagital.
  5. 5
    Por extensión, ejercicio gimnástico que consiste principalmente en movimientos de flexión₁.
  6. 6
    Curvatura suave de un estrato terrestre.

Synonyms

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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"

felxión7fflexión8fleixón7flexinó7flexiónn8flexxión8flexóin7fllexión8
Misspelling Variants of "flexión"

Frequency rank: #31,351 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "flexión"?
"flexión" is spelled F-L-E-X-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [flekˈsjõn].
What does "flexión" mean?
As a noun, "flexión" means: Acción y efecto de flexionar o flexionarse, doblando el cuerpo o una parte de él.
What are common misspellings of "flexión"?
Common misspellings include "felxión", "fflexión", "fleixón", "flexinó", "flexiónn". The correct spelling is "flexión".
How do you pronounce "flexión"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "flexión" is [flekˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "flexión" come from?
"flexión" 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.