situation
/si.tɥa.sjɔ̃/
The verdict
“situation” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,659 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,659
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Situación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-situation · situation · Spanish
situation · rank #62,659 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,659
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sobaco
Nearest frequency peer: sobaco (+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 “situation”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- situation
situation
37,342 corpus weight
- sobaco
sobaco
37,341 corpus weight
- soledades
soledades
37,340 corpus weight
- Sonja
Sonja
37,338 corpus weight
- soportamos
soportamos
37,337 corpus weight
- soterramien…
soterramiento
37,336 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “situation” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | situation |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /si.tɥa.sjɔ̃/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “situation” en español
Rare enough to double-check
situation is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,659 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /si.tɥa.sjɔ̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for situation in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is situation, spelled S-I-T-U-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Situación.
- 2Condición.
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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