decantación
The verdict
“decantación” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #88,718 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #88,718
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Acción y efecto de decantar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | decantación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [d̪ekãn̪t̪aˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “decantación” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for decantación is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪ekãn̪t̪aˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #88,718 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Acción y efecto de decantar.".
No misspelling variants are generated for decantación in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 decantación, spelled D-E-C-A-N-T-A-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción y efecto de decantar.
Frequency rank: #88,718 in Spanish
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-E-C-A-N-T-A-C-I-Ó-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [d̪ekãn̪t̪aˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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