procrastinación
[pɾokɾast̪inaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“procrastinación” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #95,606 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #95,606
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción de postergar actividades o situaciones consideradas hostiles, a favor de otras más divertidas (o menos desagradables).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | procrastinación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɾokɾast̪inaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #95,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “procrastinación” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for procrastinación is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾokɾast̪inaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #95,606 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Acción de postergar actividades o situaciones consideradas hostiles, a favor de otras más divertidas (o menos desagradables).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for procrastinación, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 procrastinación, spelled P-R-O-C-R-A-S-T-I-N-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción de postergar actividades o situaciones consideradas hostiles, a favor de otras más divertidas (o menos desagradables).
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 “procrastinación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-R-O-C-R-A-S-T-I-N-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pɾokɾast̪inaˈsjõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.