flotación
[flot̪aˈsjõn]
The verdict
“flotación” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #33,133 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #33,133
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción y resultado de flotar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flotación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [flot̪aˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “flotación” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for flotación is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [flot̪aˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,133 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for flotación, with forms such as "fflotación", "fllotación", and "floatción". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is flotación, spelled F-L-O-T-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción y resultado de flotar.
- 2: Acción de dejar que la moneda tome el valor que fija el mercado, sin intervención estatal.
- 3Línea hasta la cual llega el agua, u otro líquido, en un cuerpo que flota, como un barco por ejemplo.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fflotación,fllotación,floatción,flotacción,flotacinó,flotaciónn,flotacóin,flotaicón,flotasión,flotcaión,flottación,fltoación,foltación,lfotación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flotación - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “flotación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-L-O-T-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [flot̪aˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.