balística
[baˈlist̪ika]
The verdict
“balística” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #56,837 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #56,837
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| 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) |
Where “balística” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for balística is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈlist̪ika]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,837 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “balística”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-A-L-Í-S-T-I-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [baˈlist̪ika] (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.