preocupación
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,138
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
preocupación is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de preocupar y preocuparse. Pronounced [pɾeokupaˈsjõn]. It ranks #3,138 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with preocuparon and preocupaciones.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | preocupación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɾeokupaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #3,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for preocupación is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾeokupaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,138 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for preocupación, with forms such as "perocupación", "ppreocupación", and "precoupación". 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, "preocuparon", "preocupaciones", 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 preocupación, spelled P-R-E-O-C-U-P-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
- 1Acción o efecto de preocupar y preocuparse.
- 2Ocupación anticipada de alguna cosa.
- 3Disposición del ánimo en virtud de la cual toda la atención está absorbida por uno o varios objetos.
- 4Ofuscación intelectual por error, por la educación o por el ejemplo.
- 5Distracción.
- 6Obstinación en una idea.
- 7Creencia errónea arraigada.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: perocupación,ppreocupación,precoupación,preoccupación,preocpuación,preocuapción,preocupacción,preocupacinó,preocupaciónn,preocupacóin,preocupaicón,preocupasión,preocupcaión,preocuppación,preoucpación,proecupación,prreocupación,rpeocupación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for preocupación
Misspelling Variants of "preocupación"
Frequency rank: #3,138 in Spanish
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