germinación

/[xeɾminaˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#45,964

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

germinación is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de germinar, proceso por el que una semilla se convierte en planta. Pronounced [xeɾminaˈsjõn].

Key facts for germinación
PropertyValue
Headwordgerminación
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[xeɾminaˈsjõn]
Letters11
Frequency rank#45,964
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for germinación is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xeɾminaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,964 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for germinación, with forms such as "egrminación", "gemrinación", and "gerimnación". 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 germinación, spelled G-E-R-M-I-N-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 o efecto de germinar, proceso por el que una semilla se convierte en planta.
  2. 2
    Desarrollo inicial de un valor moral, proyecto o sueño.
  3. 3
    Comienzo del desarrollo de microbios, especialmente los dañinos.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: egrminación,gemrinación,gerimnación,germianción,germinacción,germinacinó,germinaciónn,germinacóin,germinaicón,germinasión,germincaión,germinnación,germminación,germniación,gerrminación,ggerminación,greminación

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for germinación

Misspelling Variants of "germinación"

egrminación11gemrinación11gerimnación11germianción11germinacción12germinacinó11germinaciónn12germinacóin11
Misspelling Variants of "germinación"

Frequency rank: #45,964 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "germinación"?
"germinación" is spelled G-E-R-M-I-N-A-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [xeɾminaˈsjõn].
What does "germinación" mean?
As a noun, "germinación" means: Acción o efecto de germinar, proceso por el que una semilla se convierte en planta.
What are common misspellings of "germinación"?
Common misspellings include "egrminación", "gemrinación", "gerimnación", "germianción", "germinacción". The correct spelling is "germinación".
How do you pronounce "germinación"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "germinación" is [xeɾminaˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "germinación" come from?
"germinación" 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.