glaciación
[glasjaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“glaciación” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,121 among 17,549 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,121
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 17,549
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Periodo de tiempo relativamente extenso en el que las temperaturas en un lugar permanecen muy por debajo de su nivel normal, teniendo como consecuencia una invasión de hielo del hábitat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glaciación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [glasjaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “glaciación” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
glaciación is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,121 among 17,549 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [glasjaˈsjõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Periodo de tiempo relativamente extenso en el que las temperaturas en un lugar permanecen muy por debajo de su nivel normal, teniendo como consecuencia una invasión de hielo del hábitat.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for glaciación, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is glaciación, spelled G-L-A-C-I-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Periodo de tiempo relativamente extenso en el que las temperaturas en un lugar permanecen muy por debajo de su nivel normal, teniendo como consecuencia una invasión de hielo del hábitat.
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 “glaciación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-L-A-C-I-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [glasjaˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.