proporción
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,878
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
proporción is aSpanishnoun. It means: Disposición o relación adecuada entre las partes y el todo, o entre diferentes cosas entre sí. Pronounced [pɾopoɾˈsjõn]. It ranks #5,878 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with proposición and proporcione.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proporción |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɾopoɾˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for proporción is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾopoɾˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,878 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for proporción, with forms such as "porporción", "pproporción", and "prooprción". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "proposición", "proporcione", "proporcionar", and more, 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 proporción, spelled P-R-O-P-O-R-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Disposición o relación adecuada entre las partes y el todo, o entre diferentes cosas entre sí.
- 2Parte de algo visto de forma cuantitativa.
- 3Estado o condición favorable para emprender alguna cosa.
- 4Momento u ocasión favorable para emprender alguna cosa.
- 5Cociente entre dos valores de los cuales el denominador engloba al numerador. Relación entre dos razones.
- 6Medio utilizado para enviar un paquete, encomienda o carta.
- 7Mayor o menor tamaño o dimensión de una cosa en relación con un determinado fin o criterio.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porporción,pproporción,prooprción,propocrión,proporcción,proporcinó,proporciónn,proporcóin,proporicón,proporrción,proporsión,propporción,proproción,prpoorción,prroporción,rpoporción
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for proporción
Misspelling Variants of "proporción"
Frequency rank: #5,878 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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