flotación

/[flot̪aˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#33,133

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

flotación is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción y resultado de flotar. Pronounced [flot̪aˈsjõn].

Key facts for flotación
PropertyValue
Headwordflotación
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[flot̪aˈsjõn]
Letters9
Frequency rank#33,133
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for flotación is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, 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". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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 flotación, spelled F-L-O-T-A-C-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 resultado de flotar.
  2. 2
    : Acción de dejar que la moneda tome el valor que fija el mercado, sin intervención estatal.
  3. 3
    Línea 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for flotación

Misspelling Variants of "flotación"

fflotación10fllotación10floatción9flotacción10flotacinó9flotaciónn10flotacóin9flotaicón9
Misspelling Variants of "flotación"

Frequency rank: #33,133 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "flotación"?
"flotación" is spelled F-L-O-T-A-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [flot̪aˈsjõn].
What does "flotación" mean?
As a noun, "flotación" means: Acción y resultado de flotar.
What are common misspellings of "flotación"?
Common misspellings include "fflotación", "fllotación", "floatción", "flotacción", "flotacinó". The correct spelling is "flotación".
How do you pronounce "flotación"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "flotación" is [flot̪aˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "flotación" come from?
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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.