grabación
[gɾaβ̞aˈsjõn]
The verdict
“grabación” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #4,793 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,793
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción y efecto de grabar, entendiéndose tanto la inscripción de datos como el registro de imagen y/o sonido en un soporte analógico o digital. Cosa o material grabado (registrado en formato o sopo...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grabación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gɾaβ̞aˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “grabación” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for grabación is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [gɾaβ̞aˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,793 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Acción y efecto de grabar, entendiéndose tanto la inscripción de datos como el registro de imagen y/o sonido en un soporte analógico o digital. Cosa o material grabado (registrado en formato o sopo...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for grabación, with forms such as "garbación", "ggrabación", and "graabción". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "grabaron", "graduación", "grabaciones", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is grabación, spelled G-R-A-B-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción y efecto de grabar, entendiéndose tanto la inscripción de datos como el registro de imagen y/o sonido en un soporte analógico o digital. Cosa o material grabado (registrado en formato o soporte físicos).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: garbación,ggrabación,graabción,grabacción,grabacinó,grabaciónn,grabacóin,grabaicón,grabasión,grabbación,grabcaión,gravación,grbaación,grrabación,rgabación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grabación - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “grabación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-R-A-B-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [gɾaβ̞aˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “grabaron” - see the side-by-side comparison. grabación vs grabaron
- 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.