glaciación

/[glasjaˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#80,121

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

glaciación is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced [glasjaˈsjõn].

Key facts for glaciación
PropertyValue
Headwordglaciación
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[glasjaˈsjõn]
Letters10
Frequency rank#80,121
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of glaciación in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for glaciación is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [glasjaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #80,121 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for glaciación 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 glaciación, spelled G-L-A-C-I-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

  1. 1
    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.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #80,121 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "glaciación"?
"glaciación" is spelled G-L-A-C-I-A-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [glasjaˈsjõn].
What does "glaciación" mean?
As a noun, "glaciación" means: 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.
How do you pronounce "glaciación"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "glaciación" is [glasjaˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "glaciación" come from?
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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.