suspensión

/[suspẽnˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,286

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

suspensión is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de suspender o colgar. Pronounced [suspẽnˈsjõn]. It ranks #4,286 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with suspenso and suspensiones.

Key facts for suspensión
PropertyValue
Headwordsuspensión
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[suspẽnˈsjõn]
Letters10
Frequency rank#4,286
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of suspensión in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for suspensión is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [suspẽnˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,286 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for suspensión, with forms such as "ssupensión", "ssuspensión", and "supsensión". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "suspenso", "suspensiones", "suspendió", 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 suspensión, spelled S-U-S-P-E-N-S-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acción o efecto de suspender o colgar.
  2. 2
    Estrangulación por ahorcadura.
  3. 3
    Tratamiento de la ataxia locomotriz progresiva, que consiste en suspender al enfermo por las axilas y con ayuda de un aparato.
  4. 4
    En los automóviles, conjunto de las partes y mecanismos con el fín de ser el apoyo de la carrocería sobre los ejes de los neumáticos.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ssupensión,ssuspensión,supsensión,susepnsión,suspención,suspenisón,suspennsión,suspensinó,suspensiónn,suspenssión,suspensóin,suspesnión,suspnesión,susppensión,susspensión,usspensión

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for suspensión

Misspelling Variants of "suspensión"

ssupensión10ssuspensión11supsensión10susepnsión10suspención10suspenisón10suspennsión11suspensinó10
Misspelling Variants of "suspensión"

Frequency rank: #4,286 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "suspensión"?
"suspensión" is spelled S-U-S-P-E-N-S-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [suspẽnˈsjõn].
What does "suspensión" mean?
As a noun, "suspensión" means: Acción o efecto de suspender o colgar.
What words are commonly confused with "suspensión"?
"suspensión" is commonly confused with "suspenso", "suspensiones", "suspendió". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "suspensión"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "suspensión" is [suspẽnˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "suspensión" come from?
"suspensión" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.