hipertensión
[ipeɾt̪ẽnˈsjõn]
The verdict
“hipertensión” has 19 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,758. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,758
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 15,034
- “H” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Presión excesiva de la sangre contra las paredes de los vasos sanguíneos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hipertensión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ipeɾt̪ẽnˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #19,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hipertensión” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around hipertensión (IPA [ipeɾt̪ẽnˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,758 among 15,034 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Presión excesiva de la sangre contra las paredes de los vasos sanguíneos.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for hipertensión, with forms such as "hhipertensión", "hieprtensión", and "hiperetnsión". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is hipertensión, spelled H-I-P-E-R-T-E-N-S-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Presión excesiva de la sangre contra las paredes de los vasos sanguíneos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhipertensión
- hieprtensión
- hiperetnsión
- hiperrtensión
- hipertención
- hipertenisón
- hipertennsión
- hipertensinó
- hipertensiónn
- hipertenssión
- hipertensóin
- hipertesnión
- hipertnesión
- hiperttensión
- hipetrensión
- hippertensión
- hipretensión
- hpiertensión
- ihpertensión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hipertensión - 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 “hipertensión”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-I-P-E-R-T-E-N-S-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ipeɾt̪ẽnˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.