migration
/maɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/
The verdict
“migration” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,732 among 36,142 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,732
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Migración.
Corpus desk
Index ES-migration · migration · Spanish
migration · rank #74,732 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,732
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,142
- PHOTO-FINISH miedosa
Nearest frequency peer: miedosa (-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 “migration”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- menemismo
menemismo
25,273 corpus weight
- mesitas
mesitas
25,272 corpus weight
- miedosa
miedosa
25,270 corpus weight
- migration
migration
25,269 corpus weight
- minister
minister
25,268 corpus weight
- Mirna
Mirna
25,267 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “migration” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | migration |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /maɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “migration” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
migration is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,732 among 36,142 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /maɪˈɡɹeɪ.ʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Migración.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for migration, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 migration, spelled M-I-G-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Migración.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 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.