puntuación
The verdict
“puntuación” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #9,524 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,524
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Acción o efecto de puntuar o escribir los signos necesarios para reconocer diversos aspectos de la pronunciación, entonación y agrupación de las palabras.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puntuación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pũn̪t̪waˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “puntuación” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for puntuación is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pũn̪t̪waˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,524 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 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for puntuación, with forms such as "pnutuación", "ppuntuación", and "punntuación". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "puntuaciones", 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 puntuación, spelled P-U-N-T-U-A-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 puntuar o escribir los signos necesarios para reconocer diversos aspectos de la pronunciación, entonación y agrupación de las palabras.
- 2Conjunto de los signos empleados en la escritura para clarificar el sentido, separando grupos de palabras e indicando otros elementos relacionados con la entonación y la pronunciación.
- 3Suma de los puntos obtenidos en una actividad, competencia o examen.
- 4Método a través del cual se asigna la puntuación₃.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pnutuación,ppuntuación,punntuación,puntaución,punttuación,puntuacción,puntuacinó,puntuaciónn,puntuacóin,puntuaicón,puntuasión,puntucaión,punutación,putnuación,upntuación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puntuación — 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 "puntuación"
Frequency rank: #9,524 in Spanish
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Using “puntuación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-U-N-T-U-A-C-I-Ó-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pũn̪t̪waˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “puntuaciones” — see the side-by-side comparison. puntuación vs puntuaciones
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
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