intención
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,512
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
intención is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ánimo de efectuar o de no efectuar algo, propósito. Pronounced [ĩn̪t̪ẽnˈsjõn]. It ranks #1,512 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with inyección and invención.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intención |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩn̪t̪ẽnˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for intención is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩn̪t̪ẽnˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,512 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for intención, with forms such as "inetnción", "inntención", and "intecnión". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "inyección", "invención", "intuición", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 intención, spelled I-N-T-E-N-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ánimo de efectuar o de no efectuar algo, propósito.
- 2Decisión de la voluntad propia en ordenanza a una finalidad.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inetnción,inntención,intecnión,intencción,intencinó,intenciónn,intencóin,intenicón,intennción,intensión,intneción,inttención,itnención,nitención
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for intención
Misspelling Variants of "intención"
Frequency rank: #1,512 in Spanish
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