selection
/sɪˈlɛk.ʃən/
The verdict
“selection” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #76,757 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,757
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Selección.
Corpus desk
Index ES-selection · selection · Spanish
selection · rank #76,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,757
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH segador
Nearest frequency peer: segador (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “selection”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- seducida
seducida
23,246 corpus weight
- segador
segador
23,245 corpus weight
- selection
selection
23,244 corpus weight
- serafines
serafines
23,241 corpus weight
- settings
settings
23,240 corpus weight
- señalizado
señalizado
23,239 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “selection” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | selection |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɪˈlɛk.ʃən/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “selection” en español
Rare enough to double-check
selection is uncommon Spanish at frequency #76,757 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sɪˈlɛk.ʃən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Selección.".
selection has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is selection, spelled S-E-L-E-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Selección.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).