civilizar
[siβ̞iliˈsaɾ]
The verdict
“civilizar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #93,890 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,890
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dicho de una persona: sacarla del estado salvaje e instruirla con valores de una cultura más próspera.
| 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) |
Where “civilizar” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
civilizar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #93,890 among 77,812 “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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Using “civilizar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-I-V-I-L-I-Z-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [siβ̞iliˈsaɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.