araucanización
Spanish, noun[aɾawkanisaˈsjõn]
araucanización is spelled A-R-A-U-C-A-N-I-Z-A-C-I-Ó-N (14 letters) and appears about once in every 81 million words in written Spanish, the 311,210th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Araucanización is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “Araucanization, the process of expansion of the Mapudungun language and other elements of the Mapuche culture from their homeland of…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Proceso de expansión física y cultural de los grupos mapuches o araucanos asentados en la zona sur del actual…”.
What does araucanización mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineAraucanization, the process of expansion of the Mapudungun language and other elements of the Mapuche culture from their homeland of Araucania into the plains of Patagonia, so as to assimilate other native Amerind peoples
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Proceso de expansión física y cultural de los grupos mapuches o araucanos asentados en la zona sur del actual territorio de Chile, hacia la Patagonia oriental y la Pampa.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of araucanización
- araucanizaciones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce araucanización?
- [aɾawkanisaˈsjõn]
- [aɾawkanisasiˈõn]
- [aɾawkaniθaˈθjõn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is araucanización in Spanish?
araucanización appears about once in every 81 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).