investigación
[ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈsjõn]
The verdict
“investigación” is in the everyday core of Spanish, ranked #574 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #574
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 13
- letters
- 21
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción o efecto de investigar.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | investigación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “investigación” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for investigación is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #574 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for investigación, with forms such as "inbestigación", "inevstigación", and "innvestigación". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "investigaron", "investigaciones", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is investigación, spelled I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de investigar.
- 2Estudios teóricos o experimentales en el campo de la ciencia, para aumentar los conocimientos sobre un tema o una disciplina.
- 3Averiguación que hace la policía para esclarecer un caso.
- 4Estudio que hace una persona de una materia o un campo dado, para profundizar sus conocimientos personales.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inbestigación,inevstigación,innvestigación,invesitgación,invesstigación,investgiación,investiagción,investigacción,investigacinó,investigaciónn,investigacóin,investigaicón,investigasión,investigcaión,investiggación,investtigación,invetsigación,invsetigación,invvestigación,ivnestigación,nivestigación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of investigación - 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 “investigación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “investigaron” - see the side-by-side comparison. investigación vs investigaron
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.