fornicación
[foɾnikaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“fornicación” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #66,181 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #66,181
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción y efecto de tener relaciones sexuales fuera del matrimonio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fornicación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [foɾnikaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fornicación” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fornicación is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [foɾnikaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,181 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.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for fornicación, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is fornicación, spelled F-O-R-N-I-C-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción y efecto de tener relaciones sexuales fuera del matrimonio.
- 2Por extensión, dícese del coito efectuado de modo imprudente, irresponsable y sin protección.
Synonyms
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 “fornicación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-O-R-N-I-C-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [foɾnikaˈsjõn] (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.