situación
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#385
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
situación is aSpanishnoun. It means: Manera, forma de estar situado, localizado. Pronounced [sit̪waˈsjõn]. It ranks #385 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with situaciones and simulación.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | situación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sit̪waˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for situación is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sit̪waˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #385 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for situación, with forms such as "cituación", "istuación", and "sitaución". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "situaciones", "simulación", "saturación", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is situación, spelled S-I-T-U-A-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Manera, forma de estar situado, localizado.
- 2Condición, caso.
- 3Conjunto o combinación de circunstancias o condiciones.
- 4El estado de los asuntos o de las cosas.
- 5Lugar físico donde se encuentra uno.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cituación,istuación,sitaución,sittuación,situacción,situacinó,situaciónn,situacóin,situaicón,situasión,situcaión,siutación,ssituación,stiuación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for situación
Misspelling Variants of "situación"
Frequency rank: #385 in Spanish
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