unión
[uˈnjõn]
The verdict
“unión” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #904. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #904
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 448
- “U” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción y efecto de unir o unirse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-union · unión · Spanish
unión · rank #904 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #904
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 448
- PHOTO-FINISH televisión
Nearest frequency peer: televisión (-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 “unión”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- PP
PP
99,100 corpus weight
- pudo
pudo
99,099 corpus weight
- televisión
televisión
99,098 corpus weight
- unión
unión
99,097 corpus weight
- vía
vía
99,096 corpus weight
- abajo
abajo
99,095 corpus weight
What this shows “unión” 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 | unión |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [uˈnjõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “unión”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around unión (IPA [uˈnjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #904 among 448 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 17 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for unión, with forms such as "nuión", "uinón", and "uninó". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "uno", "unos", "unit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 unión, spelled U-N-I-Ó-N.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how unión appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quedaría muy clara la unión en la Corona de diferentes entidades —antes reinos.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nuión
- uinón
- uninó
- uniónn
- unnión
- unóin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of unión - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).