unión
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#904
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
unión is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción y efecto de unir o unirse. Pronounced [uˈnjõn]. It ranks #904 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with uno and unos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [uˈnjõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for unión is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [uˈnjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #904 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for unión, with forms such as "nuión", "uinón", and "uninó". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "uno", "unos", "unit", and more, 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 unión, spelled U-N-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción y efecto de unir o unirse.
- 2Juntura de una cosa con otra.
- 3En teoría de conjuntos, operación que, a partir de dos conjuntos, devuelve un nuevo conjunto que contiene todos y cada uno de los elementos de los conjuntos originales, pero ningún otro elemento.
- 4La consolidación de los labios de una herida.
- 5Composición perfecta y uniforme de una cosa.
- 6Lisura
- 7Trabazón.
- 8Conformidad, concordancia.
- 9Casamiento.
- 10Perla semejante a otra.
- 11Semejanza de una perla con otra.
- 12Composición que resulta de la mezcla de varias sustancias entre sí.
- 13Alianza.
- 14Sortija compuesta de dos enlazadas entre sí.
- 15Inmediación de una cosa con otras.
- 16Grado de perfección espiritual en que el alma, desasida de toda criatura, se une con su Criador por la caridad, de suerte que sólo aspira a cumplir en todo la voluntad divina.
- 17Agregación o incorporación de un beneficio o prebenda eclesiástica a otra, en manos muertas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nuión,uinón,uninó,uniónn,unnión,unóin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for unión
Misspelling Variants of "unión"
Frequency rank: #904 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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