privación

Name: privación, Spanish Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[pɾiβ̞aˈsjõn]

/[pɾiβ̞aˈsjõn]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“privación” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,649. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,649
frequency rank, Spanish: 6,028
“P” headwords: 15
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción de despojar, impedir o privar.

Corpus desk

Index ES-privacion · privación · Spanish

privación · rank #18,649 · 15 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-MID #18,649
LEN-LONG 9 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-HIGH 15 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,028
PHOTO-FINISH pretendían

Nearest frequency peer: pretendían (-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.

presentarán

81,355
prestigiosa

81,354
pretendían

81,353
privación

81,352
proletariado

81,351
protestando

81,350

What this shows “privación” 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).

privación vs privaciones

73% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for privación
Property	Value
Headword	privación
Language	Spanish
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[pɾiβ̞aˈsjõn]
Letters	9
Frequency rank	#18,649
Misspellings tracked	15
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “privación”

La frecuencia va del puñado de palabras que usamos sin parar (izquierda) a la cola larga que apenas aparece (derecha).privacióncae aquí:

#18,649

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

La escala es logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× más rara). En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “pretendían” (#18,648), “proletariado” (#18,650), “prestigiosa” (#18,647). Entre 6,028 lemas con “P”, “privación” va en #18,649. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around privación (IPA [pɾiβ̞aˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,649 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for privación, with forms such as "pirvación", "pprivación", and "priavción". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "privaciones", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is privación, spelled P-R-I-V-A-C-I-Ó-N.

Definition

1
Acción de despojar, impedir o privar.
2
Carencia o falta de una cosa en sujeto capaz de tenerla.
3
Pena con que se desposee a uno del empleo, cargo o dignidad que tenía, por un delito que se ha cometido.
4
Ausencia del bien que se apetece o desea.
5
Castigo consistente en el retiro de algún privilegio o simplemente negar el permiso para hacer algo divertido.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

pirvación
pprivación
priavción
pribación
privacción
privacinó
privaciónn
privacóin
privaicón
privasión
privcaión
privvación
prrivación
prviación
rpivación

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of privación - 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.

Edit distance from "privación"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "privación"?

"privación" is spelled P-R-I-V-A-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [pɾiβ̞aˈsjõn].

What does "privación" mean?

As a noun, "privación" means: Acción de despojar, impedir o privar.

What words are commonly confused with "privación"?

"privación" is commonly confused with "privaciones". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "privación"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "privación" is [pɾiβ̞aˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "privación" come from?

"privación" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "privación", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

pretendían15 variants recolectar15 variants parentesco15 variants románticas15 variants