prostitución
The verdict
“prostitución” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #7,617 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,617
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12
- letters
- 19
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Acción o efecto de prostituir o de prostituirse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prostitución |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɾost̪it̪uˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #7,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prostitución” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for prostitución is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾost̪it̪uˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,617 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for prostitución, with forms such as "porstitución", "pprostitución", and "prosittución". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 prostitución, spelled P-R-O-S-T-I-T-U-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de prostituir o de prostituirse.
- 2Pérdida de valores morales.
- 3Oficio de quien se prostituye.
- 4Figurativamente, degradación moral a la que uno se expone a cambio de réditos monetarios.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porstitución,pprostitución,prosittución,prosstitución,prostitcuión,prostittución,prostitucción,prostitucinó,prostituciónn,prostitucóin,prostituicón,prostitusión,prostiutción,prosttitución,prosttiución,protsitución,prrostitución,prsotitución,rpostitución
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prostitución — 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 "prostitución"
Frequency rank: #7,617 in Spanish
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Using “prostitución”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-R-O-S-T-I-T-U-C-I-Ó-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pɾost̪it̪uˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby Spanish words
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