televisión
[t̪eleβ̞iˈsjõn]
The verdict
“televisión” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #903. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #903
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,400
- “T” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sistema tecnológico de transmisión y recepción de imágenes en movimiento y sonido cuyo sitio de origen está distante del lugar donde se capta la visión.
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 | televisión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪eleβ̞iˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “televisión” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around televisión (IPA [t̪eleβ̞iˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #903 among 34,400 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for televisión, with forms such as "etlevisión", "teelvisión", and "telebisión". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "televisor", "televisiva", "televisivo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is televisión, spelled T-E-L-E-V-I-S-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Sistema tecnológico de transmisión y recepción de imágenes en movimiento y sonido cuyo sitio de origen está distante del lugar donde se capta la visión.
- 2Electrodoméstico que recibe una imagen con audio, o emisión audiovisual, de un lugar remoto.
- 3Emisora de televisión.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etlevisión,teelvisión,telebisión,teleivsión,televición,televiisón,televisinó,televisiónn,televissión,televisóin,televsiión,televvisión,tellevisión,telveisión,tleevisión,ttelevisión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of televisión - 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 “televisión”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-E-L-E-V-I-S-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪eleβ̞iˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “televisor” - see the side-by-side comparison. televisión vs televisor
- 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.