tensión
[t̪ẽnˈsjõn]
The verdict
“tensión” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #3,155. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,155
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aspecto de un cuerpo expuesto a la acción de fuerzas que lo extienden o estiran.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tension · tensión · Spanish
tensión · rank #3,155 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,155
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH suya
Nearest frequency peer: suya (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “tensión”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sueldo
sueldo
96,849 corpus weight
- superiores
superiores
96,848 corpus weight
- suya
suya
96,847 corpus weight
- tensión
tensión
96,846 corpus weight
- treinta
treinta
96,845 corpus weight
- tránsito
tránsito
96,844 corpus weight
What this shows “tensión” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | tensión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪ẽnˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “tensión”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around tensión (IPA [t̪ẽnˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,155 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tensión, with forms such as "etnsión", "tención", and "tenisón". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "tenso", "tesón", "tensos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is tensión, spelled T-E-N-S-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Aspecto de un cuerpo expuesto a la acción de fuerzas que lo extienden o estiran.
- 2Nerviosismo provocado por situaciones angustiosas que originan reacciones psicosomáticas.
- 3Fuerza que impide separarse unas de otras a las partes de un mismo cuerpo cuando se halla en dicho estado.
- 4Diferencia de potencial.
- 5Presión sanguínea.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnsión
- tención
- tenisón
- tennsión
- tensinó
- tensiónn
- tenssión
- tensóin
- tesnión
- tnesión
- ttensión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tensión - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tensión", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).