sancionar
[sãnsjoˈnaɾ]
The verdict
“sancionar” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #15,483. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,483
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poner en práctica una sanción, o un castigo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sancionar · sancionar · Spanish
sancionar · rank #15,483 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,483
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH saliva
Nearest frequency peer: saliva (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “sancionar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- saliente
saliente
84,521 corpus weight
- salirse
salirse
84,520 corpus weight
- saliva
saliva
84,519 corpus weight
- sancionar
sancionar
84,518 corpus weight
- simboliza
simboliza
84,515 corpus weight
- simpática
simpática
84,514 corpus weight
What this shows “sancionar” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | sancionar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [sãnsjoˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sancionar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around sancionar (IPA [sãnsjoˈnaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,483 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sancionar, with forms such as "asncionar", "sacnionar", and "sanccionar". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "sanciones", "sanción", "sanciona", and more, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is sancionar, spelled S-A-N-C-I-O-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1Poner en práctica una sanción, o un castigo.
- 2Refrendar o ratificar una ley o alguna disposición legal.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asncionar
- sacnionar
- sanccionar
- sancinoar
- sancioanr
- sancionarr
- sancionnar
- sancionra
- sancoinar
- saniconar
- sanncionar
- sansionar
- snacionar
- ssancionar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sancionar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sancionar", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).