penalizan
[penaˈlisãn]
The verdict
“penalizan” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,428 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,428
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de penalizar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-penalizan · penalizan · Spanish
penalizan · rank #79,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,428
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pensáramos
Nearest frequency peer: pensáramos (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “penalizan”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pastelerías
pastelerías
20,577 corpus weight
- pecíolo
pecíolo
20,575 corpus weight
- penalizan
penalizan
20,573 corpus weight
- pensáramos
pensáramos
20,572 corpus weight
- Perelló
Perelló
20,570 corpus weight
- perfecciona…
perfeccionada
20,569 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “penalizan” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penalizan |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [penaˈlisãn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “penalizan” en español
Rare enough to double-check
penalizan is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,428 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [penaˈlisãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de penalizar.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for penalizan, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is penalizan, spelled P-E-N-A-L-I-Z-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de penalizar.
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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