correlation

//ˌkɒɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən// noun

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11 characters

Language

Spanish

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correlation is aSpanishnoun. It means: Una relación recíproca, paralela o complementaria entre dos o más objectos comparables; correlación. Pronounced /ˌkɒɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/.

Key facts for correlation
PropertyValue
Headwordcorrelation
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ˌkɒɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

correlation is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for correlation is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌkɒɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for correlation in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is correlation, spelled C-O-R-R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Una relación recíproca, paralela o complementaria entre dos o más objectos comparables; correlación.
  2. 2
    Una de las varias medidas de la relación estadística lineal entre dos variables aleatorias, que indican tanto la intensidad como la dirección de la relación; correlación.
  3. 3
    Un isomorfismo de un espacio proyectivo al dual de un espacio proyectivo, frecuentemente al dual de si mismo.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "correlation"?
"correlation" is spelled C-O-R-R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is /ˌkɒɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/.
What does "correlation" mean?
As a noun, "correlation" means: Una relación recíproca, paralela o complementaria entre dos o más objectos comparables; correlación.
How do you pronounce "correlation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "correlation" is /ˌkɒɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "correlation" come from?
"correlation" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.