indicación

Name: indicación, Spanish Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[ĩn̪d̪ikaˈsjõn]

/[ĩn̪d̪ikaˈsjõn]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“indicación” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #13,068. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,068
frequency rank, Spanish: 3,428
“I” headwords: 15
tracked misspellings: 8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de indicar.

Corpus desk

Index ES-indicacion · indicación · Spanish

indicación · rank #13,068 · 15 variants · 8 confusables

FREQ-MID #13,068
LEN-MEGA 10 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
VAR-HIGH 15 variants
BOOK-MID 3,428
PHOTO-FINISH incrementa

Nearest frequency peer: incrementa (-1 rank slots)

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.

ilustrado

86,937
impresionan…

86,935
incrementa

86,934
indicación

86,933
indiscutible

86,932
inevitablem…

86,931

What this shows “indicación” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

indicación vs indicaron

70% similar

indicación vs invitación

80% similar

indicación vs iniciación

80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for indicación
Property	Value
Headword	indicación
Language	Spanish
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[ĩn̪d̪ikaˈsjõn]
Letters	10
Frequency rank	#13,068
Misspellings tracked	15
Confusable pairs	8
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “indicación”

Esta escala corre desde el núcleo del español cotidiano (izquierda) hasta el rastro de formas rara vez usadas (derecha).indicacióncae aquí:

#13,068

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Los ticks avanzan en logaritmo; cada uno es del orden de diez veces más raro. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “incrementa” (#13,067), “indiscutible” (#13,069), “impresionantes” (#13,066). Entre 3,428 lemas con “I”, “indicación” va en #13,068. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around indicación (IPA [ĩn̪d̪ikaˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,068 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for indicación, with forms such as "idnicación", "indciación", and "inddicación". 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. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "indicaron", "invitación", "iniciación", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 indicación, spelled I-N-D-I-C-A-C-I-Ó-N.

Definition

1
Acción o efecto de indicar.
2
Cualquier tipo de instrucción que se da para poder hacer alguna cosa.
3
Cualquier especie de rastro o evidencia en el desarrollo de las investigaciones.
4
Señal mímica o escrita que sirve como guía en el desarrollo de algo.
5
Conjunto de síntomas que hacen formar juicio al médico de la intensidad del mal.

This word in other languages

indication(English)indication(Français)Anzeige(Deutsch)indicação(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

idnicación
indciación
inddicación
indiacción
indicacción
indicacinó
indicaciónn
indicacóin
indicaicón
indicasión
indiccación
indiccaión
inidcación
inndicación
nidicación

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of indicación - 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.

Edit distance from "indicación"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "indicación"?

"indicación" is spelled I-N-D-I-C-A-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩn̪d̪ikaˈsjõn].

What does "indicación" mean?

As a noun, "indicación" means: Acción o efecto de indicar.

What words are commonly confused with "indicación"?

"indicación" is commonly confused with "indicaron", "invitación", "iniciación". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "indicación"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "indicación" is [ĩn̪d̪ikaˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "indicación" come from?

"indicación" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "indicación", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

incrementa#13,067 inundación#13,076 itinerario#13,079 legendario#13,082

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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