unión

/[uˈnjõn]/ noun

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.

Key facts for unión
PropertyValue
Headwordunión
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[uˈnjõn]
Letters5
Frequency rank#904
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Acción y efecto de unir o unirse.
  2. 2
    Juntura de una cosa con otra.
  3. 3
    En 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.
  4. 4
    La consolidación de los labios de una herida.
  5. 5
    Composición perfecta y uniforme de una cosa.
  6. 6
    Lisura
  7. 7
    Trabazón.
  8. 8
    Conformidad, concordancia.
  9. 9
    Casamiento.
  10. 10
    Perla semejante a otra.
  11. 11
    Semejanza de una perla con otra.
  12. 12
    Composición que resulta de la mezcla de varias sustancias entre sí.
  13. 13
    Alianza.
  14. 14
    Sortija compuesta de dos enlazadas entre sí.
  15. 15
    Inmediación de una cosa con otras.
  16. 16
    Grado 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.
  17. 17
    Agregación o incorporación de un beneficio o prebenda eclesiástica a otra, en manos muertas.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

nuión5uinón5uninó5uniónn6unnión6unóin5
Misspelling Variants of "unión"

Frequency rank: #904 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "unión"?
"unión" is spelled U-N-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [uˈnjõn].
What does "unión" mean?
As a noun, "unión" means: Acción y efecto de unir o unirse.
What words are commonly confused with "unión"?
"unión" is commonly confused with "uno", "unos", "unit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "unión"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "unión" is [uˈnjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "unión" come from?
"unión" 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.