prospección
The verdict
“prospección” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #38,907 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #38,907
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 11
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Exploración de un lugar para determinar los metales y minerales que se encuentran presentes en su subsuelo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prospección |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɾospekˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #38,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prospección” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for prospección is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾospekˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #38,907 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Exploración de un lugar para determinar los metales y minerales que se encuentran presentes en su subsuelo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for prospección, with forms such as "porspección", "pprospección", and "propsección". 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, "protección", "proyección", 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 prospección, spelled P-R-O-S-P-E-C-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Exploración de un lugar para determinar los metales y minerales que se encuentran presentes en su subsuelo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porspección,pprospección,propsección,prosepcción,prospceción,prospeccinó,prospecciónn,prospeccóin,prospecicón,prospeción,prospecsión,prosppección,prosspección,prrospección,prsopección,rpospección
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prospección — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "prospección"
Frequency rank: #38,907 in Spanish
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Using “prospección”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-R-O-S-P-E-C-C-I-Ó-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pɾospekˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “protección” — see the side-by-side comparison. prospección vs protección
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
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