prohibición

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The Spanish entry for prohibición is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾojβ̞iˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,551 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "prohibieron", "prohibiciones", 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 prohibición, spelled P-R-O-H-I-B-I-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.