prohibición
[pɾojβ̞iˈsjõn]
The verdict
“prohibición” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #5,551. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,551
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de prohibir (no permitir, por ley o autoridad, la ejecución, el uso o la presencia de algo).
Corpus desk
Index ES-prohibicion · prohibición · Spanish
prohibición · rank #5,551 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,551
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH prestar
Nearest frequency peer: prestar (-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 “prohibición”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- presentada
presentada
94,453 corpus weight
- press
press
94,452 corpus weight
- prestar
prestar
94,451 corpus weight
- prohibición
prohibición
94,450 corpus weight
- quedas
quedas
94,448 corpus weight
- quédate
quédate
94,447 corpus weight
What this shows “prohibición” 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 | prohibición |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɾojβ̞iˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #5,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “prohibición”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around prohibición (IPA [pɾojβ̞iˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,551 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Acción o efecto de prohibir (no permitir, por ley o autoridad, la ejecución, el uso o la presencia de algo).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for prohibición, with forms such as "porhibición", "pprohibición", and "prhoibición". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "prohibieron", "prohibiciones", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is prohibición, spelled P-R-O-H-I-B-I-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de prohibir (no permitir, por ley o autoridad, la ejecución, el uso o la presencia de algo).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porhibición
- pprohibición
- prhoibición
- prohbiición
- prohhibición
- prohibbición
- prohibciión
- prohibicción
- prohibicinó
- prohibiciónn
- prohibicóin
- prohibiicón
- prohibisión
- prohiibción
- prohivición
- proihbición
- prrohibición
- rpohibición
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prohibición - 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 "prohibición", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).