hesitación

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for hesitación is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [esit̪aˈsjõn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Estado en el que se carece de certeza o confianza para tomar una decisión; duda.".

No misspelling variants are generated for hesitación in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 hesitación, spelled H-E-S-I-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.