selección
[selekˈsjõn]
The verdict
“selección” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,183. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,183
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,953
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Elección de una persona o cosa entre otras, como separándola de ellas y prefiriéndola.
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 | selección |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [selekˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “selección” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around selección (IPA [selekˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,183 among 34,953 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for selección, with forms such as "celección", "eslección", and "seelcción". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "selecciona", "seleccionar", "selecciones", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is selección, spelled S-E-L-E-C-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Elección de una persona o cosa entre otras, como separándola de ellas y prefiriéndola.
- 2Elección de los animales destinados a la reproducción para conseguir mejoras en la raza.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- celección
- eslección
- seelcción
- selceción
- seleccinó
- selecciónn
- seleccóin
- selecicón
- seleción
- selecsión
- sellección
- sleección
- sselección
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of selección - 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 “selección”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-E-L-E-C-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [selekˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “selecciona” - see the side-by-side comparison. selección vs selecciona
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
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.