polarización
The verdict
“polarización” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #16,179 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #16,179
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: División aguda o profunda de una población o conjunto de personas en grupos opuestos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polarización |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [polaɾisaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #16,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “polarización” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for polarización is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [polaɾisaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,179 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for polarización, with forms such as "oplarización", "ploarización", and "poalrización". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. 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 polarización, spelled P-O-L-A-R-I-Z-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
- 1División aguda o profunda de una población o conjunto de personas en grupos opuestos.
- 2La acción y el efecto de producir o adquirir rayos de luz o en general cualquier radiación electromagnética que se comporten de forma diferente en direcciones diferentes.
- 3La acción y el efecto de cambiar las condiciones físicas de un medio para que se comporte de forma diferente en diferentes direcciones.
- 4La producción o adquisición de polaridad.
- 5La condición de tener polaridad.
- 6La acción y el efecto de separar las cargas eléctricas en un sistema.
- 7La acción y el efecto de concentrar en sentidos, direcciones, temas, posturas etc opuestos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oplarización,ploarización,poalrización,polairzación,polariazción,polarizacción,polarizacinó,polarizaciónn,polarizacóin,polarizaicón,polarizasión,polarizcaión,polarizzación,polarrización,polarziación,pollarización,polraización,ppolarización
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of polarización — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "polarización"
Frequency rank: #16,179 in Spanish
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Using “polarización”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-O-L-A-R-I-Z-A-C-I-Ó-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [polaɾisaˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
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