adulteración
[að̞ul̪t̪eɾaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“adulteración” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #75,085 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #75,085
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción o efecto de adulterar (alterar, mezclar o sustituir de manera ilegal o fraudulenta la composición de una sustancia, como el licor o la leche; falsificar, viciar).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adulteración |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [að̞ul̪t̪eɾaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #75,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adulteración” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for adulteración is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [að̞ul̪t̪eɾaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #75,085 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Acción o efecto de adulterar (alterar, mezclar o sustituir de manera ilegal o fraudulenta la composición de una sustancia, como el licor o la leche; falsificar, viciar).".
adulteración doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is adulteración, spelled A-D-U-L-T-E-R-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de adulterar (alterar, mezclar o sustituir de manera ilegal o fraudulenta la composición de una sustancia, como el licor o la leche; falsificar, viciar).
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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 “adulteración”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-D-U-L-T-E-R-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [að̞ul̪t̪eɾaˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.