refracción
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,822
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
refracción is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción y efecto de refractar Pronounced [refɾakˈsjõn]. Often confused with reacción and redacción.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | refracción |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [refɾakˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #43,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for refracción is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [refɾakˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #43,822 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Acción y efecto de refractar".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for refracción, with forms such as "erfracción", "refarcción", and "reffracción". 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, "reacción", "redacción", 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 refracción, spelled R-E-F-R-A-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
- 1Acción y efecto de refractar
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erfracción,refarcción,reffracción,refraccinó,refracciónn,refraccóin,refracicón,refración,refracsión,refrcación,refrracción,rerfacción,rferacción,rrefracción
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for refracción
Misspelling Variants of "refracción"
Frequency rank: #43,822 in Spanish
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