balística
[baˈlist̪ika]
The verdict
“balística” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #56,837 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,837
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciencia cuyo objetivo es el cálculo de la dirección, el alcance y el comportamiento de proyectiles. Son cuatro ramas principales de balística: interna, externa, de efectos, e identificativa o compa...
Corpus desk
Index ES-balistica · balística · Spanish
balística · rank #56,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,837
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH Barea
Nearest frequency peer: Barea (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “balística”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- babosas
babosas
43,167 corpus weight
- bailemos
bailemos
43,166 corpus weight
- balística
balística
43,164 corpus weight
- Barea
Barea
43,163 corpus weight
- barren
barren
43,162 corpus weight
- Bavaria
Bavaria
43,161 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “balística” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balística |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈlist̪ika] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “balística” en español
Rare enough to double-check
balística is uncommon Spanish at frequency #56,837 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [baˈlist̪ika]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ciencia cuyo objetivo es el cálculo de la dirección, el alcance y el comportamiento de proyectiles. Son cuatro ramas principales de balística: interna, externa, de efectos, e identificativa o compa...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for balística, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 balística, spelled B-A-L-Í-S-T-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Ciencia cuyo objetivo es el cálculo de la dirección, el alcance y el comportamiento de proyectiles. Son cuatro ramas principales de balística: interna, externa, de efectos, e identificativa o comparativa, que incluye la subrama forense, de aplicación judicial.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how balística appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La problemática que tiene que resolver la balística forense sigue un camino inverso a la planteada a la ciencia balística clásica. Para ésta un problema podría ser la munición y arma a utilizar para conseguir unos efectos en un blanco determinado, mientras que para la balística forense sería que, a la vista de los efectos producidos en tal blanco, se dete…
This word in other languages
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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