ion
[ˈjõn]
The verdict
“ion” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,745) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,745
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partícula cargada eléctricamente constituida por un átomo o molécula que no es eléctricamente neutro.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ion · ion · Spanish
ion · rank #22,745 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,745
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH inéditos
Nearest frequency peer: inéditos (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “ion”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- involucrarse
involucrarse
77,259 corpus weight
- inéditos
inéditos
77,257 corpus weight
- ion
ion
77,256 corpus weight
- Isabella
Isabella
77,255 corpus weight
- jardinería
jardinería
77,254 corpus weight
- jarra
jarra
77,253 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ion” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | ion |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjõn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ion”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ion is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "is", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈjõn]. Frequency #22,745 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Partícula cargada eléctricamente constituida por un átomo o molécula que no es eléctricamente neutro.".
ion has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "is", "it", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ion, spelled I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Partícula cargada eléctricamente constituida por un átomo o molécula que no es eléctricamente neutro.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).