percusión
[peɾkuˈsjõn]
The verdict
“percusión” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,787. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,787
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,357
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción y resultado de percutir, percutar o golpetear (golpear, casi siempre de modo repetido).
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 | percusión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peɾkuˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,787 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “percusión” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around percusión (IPA [peɾkuˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,787 among 48,357 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for percusión, with forms such as "eprcusión", "pecrusión", and "perccusión". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "persuasión", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is percusión, spelled P-E-R-C-U-S-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción y resultado de percutir, percutar o golpetear (golpear, casi siempre de modo repetido).
- 2En una orquesta, grupo de los instrumentos que se hacen sonar al ser golpeados o agitados.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprcusión,pecrusión,perccusión,percsuión,percución,percuisón,percusinó,percusiónn,percussión,percusóin,perrcusión,perucsión,ppercusión,precusión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of percusión - 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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Using “percusión”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-R-C-U-S-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [peɾkuˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “persuasión” - see the side-by-side comparison. percusión vs persuasión
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.