orientación
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,580
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
orientación is aSpanishnoun. It means: La acción y efecto de estar orientado. Pronounced [oɾjẽn̪t̪aˈsjõn]. It ranks #3,580 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ostentación and orientaciones.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | orientación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oɾjẽn̪t̪aˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #3,580 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for orientación is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oɾjẽn̪t̪aˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,580 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for orientación, with forms such as "oirentación", "oreintación", and "orienatción". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "ostentación", "orientaciones", "ordenación", 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 orientación, spelled O-R-I-E-N-T-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
- 1La acción y efecto de estar orientado.
- 2Dirección o sentido con relación a los puntos cardinales.
- 3La dirección que sigue una tendencia, un movimiento o un desarrollo.
- 4Tendencia o inclinación general del pensamiento, de una idea, de un documento, etc.
- 5Predisposición en favor de algo.
- 6Instrucción introductoria a una nueva situación.
- 7Posición de una construcción con relación al eje Este-Oeste.
- 8Habilidad de una persona p
- 9Conciencia del mundo objetivo con relación a uno mismo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oirentación,oreintación,orienatción,orienntación,orientacción,orientacinó,orientaciónn,orientacóin,orientaicón,orientasión,orientcaión,orienttación,orietnación,orinetación,orrientación,roientación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for orientación
Misspelling Variants of "orientación"
Frequency rank: #3,580 in Spanish
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