observación
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,532
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
20
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
observación is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción de examinar a alguna persona, animal o cosa con detenimiento. Pronounced [oβ̞seɾβ̞aˈsjõn]. It ranks #4,532 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with observaron and observaciones.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | observación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oβ̞seɾβ̞aˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for observación is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oβ̞seɾβ̞aˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,532 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for observación, with forms such as "boservación", "obbservación", and "obcervación". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "observaron", "observaciones", 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 observación, spelled O-B-S-E-R-V-A-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción de examinar a alguna persona, animal o cosa con detenimiento.
- 2Aportes explicativos que se escriben al margen o al pie de un texto.
- 3Comentario que complementa, enriquece o aclara un asunto en una discusión o charla.
- 4Rectificación que se hace a quien expone o presenta una materia.
- 5Reprimenda o castigo menor a quien comete una falta o error.
- 6Acción de mantener inalterable cierta conducta.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: boservación,obbservación,obcervación,obesrvación,obseravción,obserbación,obserrvación,observacción,observacinó,observaciónn,observacóin,observaicón,observasión,observcaión,observvación,obsevración,obsrevación,obsservación,osbervación,ovservación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for observación
Misspelling Variants of "observación"
Frequency rank: #4,532 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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