sedación
[seð̞aˈsjõn]
The verdict
“sedación” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #59,623 among 34,953 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,623
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,953
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción o efecto de sedar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sedacion · sedación · Spanish
sedación · rank #59,623 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,623
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 34,953
- PHOTO-FINISH sedoso
Nearest frequency peer: sedoso (+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 “sedación”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- schwarz
schwarz
40,380 corpus weight
- sedación
sedación
40,378 corpus weight
- sedoso
sedoso
40,377 corpus weight
- seguiríamos
seguiríamos
40,376 corpus weight
- semestrales
semestrales
40,375 corpus weight
- sento
sento
40,374 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sedación” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sedación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seð̞aˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sedación” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sedación is uncommon Spanish at frequency #59,623 among 34,953 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [seð̞aˈsjõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acción o efecto de sedar.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sedación, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is sedación, spelled S-E-D-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de sedar.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.