imprecación
[ĩmpɾekaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“imprecación” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción y efecto de imprecar o maldecir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-imprecacion · imprecación · Spanish
imprecación · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imprecación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩmpɾekaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “imprecación” en español
Rare enough to double-check
imprecación is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ĩmpɾekaˈsjõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
imprecación doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is imprecación, spelled I-M-P-R-E-C-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción y efecto de imprecar o maldecir.
- 2Figura retórica que manifiesta el deseo de que alguien sufra mal o daño.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how imprecación appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Polifemo, el feroz cíclope, lanza su imprecación contra Ulises por haberlo enceguecido.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.