racismo

/[raˈsismo]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,223

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

racismo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Convicción o doctrina que sostiene que algunas etnias o linajes humanos, especialmente el propio, son intrínsecamente superiores a otros. Pronounced [raˈsismo]. It ranks #6,223 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with racista and realismo.

Key facts for racismo
PropertyValue
Headwordracismo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[raˈsismo]
Letters7
Frequency rank#6,223
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for racismo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [raˈsismo]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,223 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Convicción o doctrina que sostiene que algunas etnias o linajes humanos, especialmente el propio, son intrínsecamente superiores a otros.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for racismo, with forms such as "arcismo", "raccismo", and "racimso". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "racista", "realismo", "rarísimo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 racismo, spelled R-A-C-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Convicción o doctrina que sostiene que algunas etnias o linajes humanos, especialmente el propio, son intrínsecamente superiores a otros.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: arcismo,raccismo,racimso,racismmo,racisom,racissmo,racsimo,raicsmo,rasismo,rcaismo,rracismo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for racismo

Misspelling Variants of "racismo"

arcismo7raccismo8racimso7racismmo8racisom7racissmo8racsimo7raicsmo7
Misspelling Variants of "racismo"

Frequency rank: #6,223 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "racismo"?
"racismo" is spelled R-A-C-I-S-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is [raˈsismo].
What does "racismo" mean?
As a noun, "racismo" means: Convicción o doctrina que sostiene que algunas etnias o linajes humanos, especialmente el propio, son intrínsecamente superiores a otros.
What words are commonly confused with "racismo"?
"racismo" is commonly confused with "racista", "realismo", "rarísimo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "racismo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "racismo" is [raˈsismo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "racismo" come from?
"racismo" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.