unción
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#53,918
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
unción is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de ungir Pronounced [ũnˈsjõn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unción |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ũnˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for unción is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ũnˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,918 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for unción in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 unción, spelled U-N-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de ungir
- 2En particular, unción₁ con ungüento de mercurio, usada antiguamente para tratar la sífilis.
- 3En particular, unción₁ ritual con óleo consagrado que se da a los enfermos graves o moribundos
- 4Por extensión, gracia divina que ayuda en la búsqueda de la virtud
- 5Por extensión, empeño apasionado que se pone en una causa
- 6Vela pequeña que se iza a proa en lugar del foque en caso de viento tormentoso
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #53,918 in Spanish
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