lesión
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,631
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
lesión is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cambio dañino en la morfología o estructura de una parte del cuerpo u organismo al sufrir detrimento a consecuencia de un golpe, una herida o una enfermedad. Pronounced [leˈsjõn]. It ranks #5,631 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lion and listón.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lesión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lesión is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [leˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,631 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for lesión, with forms such as "elsión", "leisón", and "lesinó". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "lion", "listón", "loción", 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 lesión, spelled L-E-S-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cambio dañino en la morfología o estructura de una parte del cuerpo u organismo al sufrir detrimento a consecuencia de un golpe, una herida o una enfermedad.
- 2Por extensión, cualquier tipo de cambio dañino o maligno.
- 3Delito que consiste en ocasionar un daño físico, financiero o psíquico a una persona, animal o entidad.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elsión,leisón,lesinó,lesiónn,lessión,lesóin,llesión,lseión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lesión
Misspelling Variants of "lesión"
Frequency rank: #5,631 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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