prefación
[pɾefaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“prefación” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prólogo₁.
Corpus desk
Index ES-prefacion · prefación · Spanish
prefación · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prefación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɾefaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “prefación” en español
Rare enough to double-check
prefación is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [pɾefaˈsjõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prólogo₁.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for prefación, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is prefación, spelled P-R-E-F-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Prólogo₁.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prefación appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«La profación del tomo I del Diccionario de autoridades ya explicaba cuál era la misión de la RAE: “El principal fin que tuvo la Real Academia Española para su formación fue hacer un diccionario copioso y exacto, en que se viese la grandeza y el poder de la lengua (…)”».
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.