radiación
[rað̞jaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“radiación” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,819
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,955
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Propagación de energía en forma de ondas electromagnéticas o partículas subatómicas a través del vacío o de un medio material.
Corpus desk
Index ES-radiacion · radiación · Spanish
radiación · rank #6,819 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #6,819
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 48,955
- PHOTO-FINISH provisional
Nearest frequency peer: provisional (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “radiación”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- primarias
primarias
93,185 corpus weight
- procede
procede
93,184 corpus weight
- provisional
provisional
93,183 corpus weight
- radiación
radiación
93,182 corpus weight
- reconocidos
reconocidos
93,181 corpus weight
- ricas
ricas
93,179 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “radiación” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | radiación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [rað̞jaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “radiación” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around radiación (IPA [rað̞jaˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,819 among 48,955 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for radiación, with forms such as "ardiación", "radaición", and "raddiación". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "radiaciones", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is radiación, spelled R-A-D-I-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Propagación de energía en forma de ondas electromagnéticas o partículas subatómicas a través del vacío o de un medio material.
- 2Acción o efecto de irradiar (despedir rayos o energía).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ardiación
- radaición
- raddiación
- radiacción
- radiacinó
- radiaciónn
- radiacóin
- radiaicón
- radiasión
- radicaión
- raidación
- rdaiación
- rradiación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of radiación - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "radiación", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.