investigación

[ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈsjõn]

/[ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈsjõn]/ noun

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The verdict

“investigación” has 21 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #574. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#574
frequency rank, Spanish
3,428
“I” headwords
21
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index ES-investigacion · investigación · Spanish

investigación · rank #574 · 21 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #574
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 21 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,428
  • PHOTO-FINISH has

Nearest frequency peer: has (-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.

Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “investigación”

Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

investigación vs investigaron
77% similar
investigación vs investigaciones
80% similar

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

Key facts for investigación
PropertyValue
Headwordinvestigación
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈsjõn]
Letters13
Frequency rank#574
Misspellings tracked21
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “investigación”

La frecuencia va del puñado de palabras que usamos sin parar (izquierda) a la cola larga que apenas aparece (derecha).investigacióncae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

La escala es logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× más rara). En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “has” (#573), “junio” (#575), “habían” (#572). Entre 3,428 lemas con “I”, “investigación” va en #574. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 21 spelling variants around investigación (IPA [ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #574 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Acción o efecto de investigar.
  2. 2
    Estudios teóricos o experimentales en el campo de la ciencia, para aumentar los conocimientos sobre un tema o una disciplina.
  3. 3
    Averiguación que hace la policía para esclarecer un caso.
  4. 4
    Estudio que hace una persona de una materia o un campo dado, para profundizar sus conocimientos personales.

Synonyms

averiguaciónbúsquedaexploraciónindagaciónpesquisa

This word in other languages

quest(English)recherche(Français)Suche(Deutsch)exploração(Português)

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.

inbestigación1inevstigación2innvestigación1invesitgación2invesstigación1investgiación2investiagción2investigacción1
Edit distance from "investigación"

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 "investigación"?
"investigación" is spelled I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈsjõn].
What does "investigación" mean?
As a noun, "investigación" means: Acción o efecto de investigar.
What words are commonly confused with "investigación"?
"investigación" is commonly confused with "investigaron", "investigaciones". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "investigación"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "investigación" is [ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "investigación" come from?
"investigación" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

especialmente#707internacional#378participación#867probablemente#880

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (21 here; floor ≥5).

organizaciones21 variantsestadounidense21 variantsreconocimiento21 variantsconsecuencias21 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list