ocupación
[okupaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“ocupación” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #3,500. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,500
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Efecto y acción de ocupar u ocuparse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ocupacion · ocupación · Spanish
ocupación · rank #3,500 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,500
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH olvidado
Nearest frequency peer: olvidado (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “ocupación”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- nieto
nieto
96,504 corpus weight
- nuclear
nuclear
96,503 corpus weight
- ocupación
ocupación
96,501 corpus weight
- olvidado
olvidado
96,500 corpus weight
- organizar
organizar
96,499 corpus weight
- Pacífico
Pacífico
96,498 corpus weight
What this shows “ocupación” 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ocupación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [okupaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “ocupación”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around ocupación (IPA [okupaˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,500 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for ocupación, with forms such as "coupación", "occupación", and "ocpuación". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "ocuparon", "ocupaciones", "ocultación", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is ocupación, spelled O-C-U-P-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Efecto y acción de ocupar u ocuparse.
- 2Cuidado o preocupación que dificulta usar el tiempo en otra cosa.
- 3Trabajo, oficio, profesión o empleo.
- 4En lenguaje de derecho, es la manera originaria y natural de obtener la propiedad de ciertos bienes que no tienen propietario.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- coupación
- occupación
- ocpuación
- ocuapción
- ocupacción
- ocupacinó
- ocupaciónn
- ocupacóin
- ocupaicón
- ocupasión
- ocupcaión
- ocuppación
- oucpación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ocupación - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ocupación", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).