vacation
/veɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/
The verdict
“vacation” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #86,341 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #86,341
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vacaciones.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vacation |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /veɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vacation” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vacation is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /veɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/. Corpus data places it at rank #86,341 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for vacation in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 vacation, spelled V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Vacaciones.
- 2Descanso.
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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Using “vacation”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /veɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.