investigation
/ɪnˌvɛs.tɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
The verdict
“investigation” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,155 among 22,782 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,155
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 22,782
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Investigación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-investigation · investigation · Spanish
investigation · rank #71,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,155
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 22,782
- PHOTO-FINISH invertiría
Nearest frequency peer: invertiría (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “investigation”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- interpreten
interpreten
28,850 corpus weight
- invertiría
invertiría
28,847 corpus weight
- investigati…
investigation
28,846 corpus weight
- investir
investir
28,845 corpus weight
- invidentes
invidentes
28,844 corpus weight
- iracunda
iracunda
28,842 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “investigation” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | investigation |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪnˌvɛs.tɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #71,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “investigation” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
investigation is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,155 among 22,782 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɪnˌvɛs.tɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Investigación.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for investigation in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct Spanish form is investigation, spelled I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Investigación.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "investigation", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.