navegación

Name: navegación, Spanish Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[naβ̞eɣ̞aˈsjõn]

/[naβ̞eɣ̞aˈsjõn]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“navegación” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #5,760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,760
frequency rank, Spanish: 1,151
“N” headwords: 16
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

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

Corpus desk

Index ES-navegacion · navegación · Spanish

navegación · rank #5,760 · 16 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-COMMON #5,760
LEN-MEGA 10 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-HIGH 16 variants
BOOK-MID 1,151
PHOTO-FINISH Mérida

Nearest frequency peer: Mérida (-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.

motivación

94,244
muera

94,243
Mérida

94,242
navegación

94,241
nervios

94,240
ocupada

94,238

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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

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

navegación vs negación

80% similar

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

Key facts for navegación
Property	Value
Headword	navegación
Language	Spanish
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[naβ̞eɣ̞aˈsjõn]
Letters	10
Frequency rank	#5,760
Misspellings tracked	16
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “navegación”

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

#5,760

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

El eje es logarítmico: cada tick marca unas diez veces menos frecuencia. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “Mérida” (#5,759), “nervios” (#5,761), “muera” (#5,758). Entre 1,151 lemas con “N”, “navegación” va en #5,760. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around navegación (IPA [naβ̞eɣ̞aˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,760 among 1,151 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for navegación, with forms such as "anvegación", "nabegación", and "naevgación". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "negación", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is navegación, spelled N-A-V-E-G-A-C-I-Ó-N.

Definition

1
Acción o efecto de navegar
2
Desplazamiento o viaje hecho en una embarcación.
3
Ciencia que trata de los desplazamientos en embarcaciones o vehículos que navegan.
4
Utilizar un navegador web para visitar diferentes páginas web saltando de una a otra.

Synonyms

náutica

This word in other languages

sailing(English)navigation(Français)Segeln(Deutsch)navegação(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

anvegación
nabegación
naevgación
naveagción
navegacción
navegacinó
navegaciónn
navegacóin
navegaicón
navegasión
navegcaión
naveggación
navgeación
navvegación
nnavegación
nvaegación

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of navegación - 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.

Edit distance from "navegación"

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 "navegación"?

"navegación" is spelled N-A-V-E-G-A-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [naβ̞eɣ̞aˈsjõn].

What does "navegación" mean?

As a noun, "navegación" means: Acción o efecto de navegar

What words are commonly confused with "navegación"?

"navegación" is commonly confused with "negación". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "navegación"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "navegación" is [naβ̞eɣ̞aˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "navegación" come from?

"navegación" is a Spanish word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

motivación#5,757 libertades#5,747 referéndum#5,777 terminaron#5,783

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

manteniendo16 variants fortalecer16 variants caracteriza16 variants asistentes16 variants