prevención

/[pɾeβ̞ẽnˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,104

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

prevención is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de prevenir. Pronounced [pɾeβ̞ẽnˈsjõn]. It ranks #4,104 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with presunción and pretensión.

Key facts for prevención
PropertyValue
Headwordprevención
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pɾeβ̞ẽnˈsjõn]
Letters10
Frequency rank#4,104
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of prevención in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for prevención is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾeβ̞ẽnˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,104 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for prevención, with forms such as "pervención", "pprevención", and "prebención". 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, "presunción", "pretensión", 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 prevención, spelled P-R-E-V-E-N-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acción o efecto de prevenir.
  2. 2
    Disposición para impedir un peligro o efectuar una cosa.
  3. 3
    Opinión desfavorable que se tiene de una persona o cosa.
  4. 4
    Sitio de policía donde se pone de manera preventiva a las personas que han cometido algún delito, falta o infracción.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: pervención,pprevención,prebención,preevnción,prevecnión,prevencción,prevencinó,prevenciónn,prevencóin,prevenicón,prevennción,prevensión,prevneción,prevvención,prrevención,prveención,rpevención

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for prevención

Misspelling Variants of "prevención"

pervención10pprevención11prebención10preevnción10prevecnión10prevencción11prevencinó10prevenciónn11
Misspelling Variants of "prevención"

Frequency rank: #4,104 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prevención"?
"prevención" is spelled P-R-E-V-E-N-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [pɾeβ̞ẽnˈsjõn].
What does "prevención" mean?
As a noun, "prevención" means: Acción o efecto de prevenir.
What words are commonly confused with "prevención"?
"prevención" is commonly confused with "presunción", "pretensión". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prevención"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prevención" is [pɾeβ̞ẽnˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prevención" come from?
"prevención" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.