secreción
[sekɾeˈsjõn]
The verdict
“secreción” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #25,448. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,448
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Función de una célula o de un tejido orgánico de secretar, es decir, producir y excretar una substancia. Habitualmente es una función glandular.
Corpus desk
Index ES-secrecion · secreción · Spanish
secreción · rank #25,448 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,448
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH Sarajevo
Nearest frequency peer: Sarajevo (-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 “secreción”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- saludando
saludando
74,556 corpus weight
- sandía
sandía
74,555 corpus weight
- Sarajevo
Sarajevo
74,554 corpus weight
- secreción
secreción
74,553 corpus weight
- sharp
sharp
74,552 corpus weight
- shorts
shorts
74,551 corpus weight
What this shows “secreción” 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 | secreción |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sekɾeˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #25,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “secreción”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around secreción (IPA [sekɾeˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,448 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for secreción, with forms such as "cecreción", "escreción", and "scereción". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "secreciones", "sección", "secesión", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is secreción, spelled S-E-C-R-E-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Función de una célula o de un tejido orgánico de secretar, es decir, producir y excretar una substancia. Habitualmente es una función glandular.
- 2La sustancia que es segregada por una célula o un tejido orgánico.
- 3Acción y efecto de segregar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how secreción appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La secreción del páncreas produce la insulina y el glucagón.
La saliva es una secreción.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cecreción
- escreción
- scereción
- seccreción
- secerción
- secrceión
- secrección
- secrecinó
- secreciónn
- secrecóin
- secreicón
- secresión
- secrreción
- serceción
- ssecreción
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of secreción - 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 "secreción", 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).