variación
[baɾjaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“variación” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,448. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,448
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La acción y el efecto de variar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-variacion · variación · Spanish
variación · rank #8,448 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,448
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH usadas
Nearest frequency peer: usadas (-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 “variación”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- trataron
trataron
91,556 corpus weight
- tropa
tropa
91,555 corpus weight
- usadas
usadas
91,554 corpus weight
- variación
variación
91,553 corpus weight
- varía
varía
91,552 corpus weight
- vecindario
vecindario
91,551 corpus weight
What this shows “variación” 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 | variación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baɾjaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “variación”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around variación (IPA [baɾjaˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,448 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for variación, with forms such as "avriación", "bariación", and "vairación". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "variaciones", "valuación", "validación", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is variación, spelled V-A-R-I-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1La acción y el efecto de variar.
- 2La acción y el efecto de balancearse.
- 3La acción y el efecto de cambiar.
- 4Cada imitación melódica de un mismo tema.
- 5Una repetición lingüística.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how variación appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tenemos una variación de libros en nuestra librería.
Necesitamos una variación de carga.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- avriación
- bariación
- vairación
- varaición
- variacción
- variacinó
- variaciónn
- variacóin
- variaicón
- variasión
- varicaión
- varriación
- vraiación
- vvariación
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of variación - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "variación", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).