civilización
[siβ̞ilisaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“civilización” has 19 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #5,473. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,473
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de civilizar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-civilizacion · civilización · Spanish
civilización · rank #5,473 · 19 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #5,473
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH claves
Nearest frequency peer: claves (+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 “civilización”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- buscaba
buscaba
94,531 corpus weight
- cabrón
cabrón
94,530 corpus weight
- civilización
civilización
94,528 corpus weight
- claves
claves
94,527 corpus weight
- colocar
colocar
94,526 corpus weight
- consejero
consejero
94,525 corpus weight
What this shows “civilización” 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 | civilización |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siβ̞ilisaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #5,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “civilización”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around civilización (IPA [siβ̞ilisaˈsjõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,473 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for civilización, with forms such as "ccivilización", "cibilización", and "ciivlización". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "civilizaciones", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is civilización, spelled C-I-V-I-L-I-Z-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de civilizar.
- 2Cualquier clase de sociedad humana.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccivilización
- cibilización
- ciivlización
- civiilzación
- civiliazción
- civilizacción
- civilizacinó
- civilizaciónn
- civilizacóin
- civilizaicón
- civilizcaión
- civilizzación
- civillización
- civilziación
- civliización
- civvilización
- cviilización
- icvilización
- sivilizasión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of civilización - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "civilización", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).