civilizar
[siβ̞iliˈsaɾ]
The verdict
“civilizar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #93,890 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,890
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dicho de una persona: sacarla del estado salvaje e instruirla con valores de una cultura más próspera.
Corpus desk
Index ES-civilizar · civilizar · Spanish
civilizar · rank #93,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,890
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH circularán
Nearest frequency peer: circularán (-3 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 “civilizar”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- chorrear
chorrear
6,119 corpus weight
- circularán
circularán
6,114 corpus weight
- civilizar
civilizar
6,111 corpus weight
- claritas
claritas
6,108 corpus weight
- classical
classical
6,107 corpus weight
- cobrada
cobrada
6,103 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “civilizar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | civilizar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [siβ̞iliˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “civilizar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
civilizar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #93,890 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [siβ̞iliˈsaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dicho de una persona: sacarla del estado salvaje e instruirla con valores de una cultura más próspera.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for civilizar, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is civilizar, spelled C-I-V-I-L-I-Z-A-R.
Definition
- 1Dicho de una persona: sacarla del estado salvaje e instruirla con valores de una cultura más próspera.
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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