obsesión

/[oβ̞seˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,557

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

obsesión is aSpanishnoun. It means: Preocupación o atención compulsiva, irracional o recurrente hacia una sola cosa. Pronounced [oβ̞seˈsjõn]. It ranks #8,557 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with opresión and obsesivo.

Key facts for obsesión
PropertyValue
Headwordobsesión
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[oβ̞seˈsjõn]
Letters8
Frequency rank#8,557
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of obsesión in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for obsesión is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oβ̞seˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,557 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for obsesión, with forms such as "bosesión", "obbsesión", and "obceción". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "opresión", "obsesivo", "obsesiva", 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 obsesión, spelled O-B-S-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

  1. 1
    Preocupación o atención compulsiva, irracional o recurrente hacia una sola cosa.
  2. 2
    Idea persistente que se fija en la conciencia o invade el comportamiento.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bosesión,obbsesión,obceción,obessión,obseisón,obsesinó,obsesiónn,obsessión,obsesóin,obsseión,obssesión,osbesión,ovsesión

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for obsesión

Misspelling Variants of "obsesión"

bosesión8obbsesión9obceción8obessión8obseisón8obsesinó8obsesiónn9obsessión9
Misspelling Variants of "obsesión"

Frequency rank: #8,557 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "obsesión"?
"obsesión" is spelled O-B-S-E-S-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [oβ̞seˈsjõn].
What does "obsesión" mean?
As a noun, "obsesión" means: Preocupación o atención compulsiva, irracional o recurrente hacia una sola cosa.
What words are commonly confused with "obsesión"?
"obsesión" is commonly confused with "opresión", "obsesivo", "obsesiva". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "obsesión"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "obsesión" is [oβ̞seˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "obsesión" come from?
"obsesión" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.