percepción
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,366
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
percepción is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de percibir (recibir algo, captar por los sentidos, comprender). Pronounced [peɾsepˈsjõn]. It ranks #4,366 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with perfección and percepciones.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | percepción |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peɾsepˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for percepción is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾsepˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,366 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 percepción, with forms such as "eprcepción", "pecrepción", and "perccepción". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "perfección", "percepciones", 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 percepción, spelled P-E-R-C-E-P-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 o efecto de percibir (recibir algo, captar por los sentidos, comprender).
- 2Facultad mental y acción de recibir, elaborar e interpretar información proveniente del entorno, especialmente a través de los sentidos.
- 3Imagen o representación de un objeto o concepto en la mente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprcepción,pecrepción,perccepción,percecpión,percepcción,percepcinó,percepciónn,percepcóin,percepicón,perceppción,percpeción,perecpción,perrcepción,persepsión,ppercepción,precepción
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for percepción
Misspelling Variants of "percepción"
Frequency rank: #4,366 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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