reflexión
[reflekˈsjõn]
The verdict
“reflexión” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #3,656 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,656
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción o resultado de reflexionar.
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 | reflexión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reflekˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “reflexión” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for reflexión is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reflekˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,656 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for reflexión, with forms such as "erflexión", "refelxión", and "refflexión". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "reflexivo", "reflexiva", "reflexionar", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is reflexión, spelled R-E-F-L-E-X-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción o resultado de reflexionar.
- 2Acción o resultado de reflejar
- 3Acción o resultado de reflectar.
- 4Fenómeno por el cual un rayo de luz que incide sobre una superficie es reflejado. El ángulo con la normal a esa superficie que forman los rayos incidente y reflejado son iguales. Se produce también un fenómeno de absorción diferencial en la superficie, por el cual la energía y espectro del rayo reflejado no coinciden con la del incidente.
- 5En mecánica ondulatoria y acústica hay un fenómeno idéntico al de la reflexión óptica. En este caso, lo que se absorbe o refleja, ya no es luz, sino ondas.
- 6Proceso de trasladar o copiar todos los puntos de una figura a otra posición equidistante de una recta denominada eje de simetría. El resultado final es una imagen especular de la original.
- 7Se refiere al proceso de meditar.
- 8Característica de algunos lenguajes de programación como Java que permite obtener información de los componentes de un programa durante su ejecución.
- 9A un nivel mental, valorar diversas opciones, valoraciones, datos, o cualquier cosa observable o imaginable, y en consecuencia, terminar proyectando un pensamiento final acerca de lo observado.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erflexión,refelxión,refflexión,refleixón,reflexinó,reflexiónn,reflexxión,reflexóin,refllexión,reflxeión,relfexión,rfelexión,rreflexión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reflexión - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Using “reflexión”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-E-F-L-E-X-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [reflekˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “reflexivo” - see the side-by-side comparison. reflexión vs reflexivo
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.