prescripción
[pɾeskɾipˈsjõn]
The verdict
“prescripción” has 20 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #16,425. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,425
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de prescribir
Corpus desk
Index ES-prescripcion · prescripción · Spanish
prescripción · rank #16,425 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,425
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH preocupen
Nearest frequency peer: preocupen (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “prescripción”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- premiado
premiado
83,579 corpus weight
- prendió
prendió
83,578 corpus weight
- preocupen
preocupen
83,577 corpus weight
- prescripción
prescripción
83,576 corpus weight
- presionando
presionando
83,575 corpus weight
- priori
priori
83,574 corpus weight
What this shows “prescripción” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | prescripción |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɾeskɾipˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #16,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “prescripción”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around prescripción (IPA [pɾeskɾipˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,425 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for prescripción, with forms such as "perscripción", "pprescripción", and "precsripción". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "prescripciones", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is prescripción, spelled P-R-E-S-C-R-I-P-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de prescribir
- 2Documento donde se ha redactado una prescripción₁ médica
- 3Texto introductorio con que se empieza una obra
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- perscripción
- pprescripción
- precsripción
- presccripción
- prescirpción
- prescricpión
- prescripcción
- prescripcinó
- prescripciónn
- prescripcóin
- prescripicón
- prescrippción
- prescripsión
- prescrpición
- prescrripción
- presrcipción
- presscripción
- prrescripción
- prsecripción
- rpescripción
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prescripción - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prescripción", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).