reduplicación

[reð̞uplikaˈsjõn]

/[reð̞uplikaˈsjõn]/ noun

The verdict

“reduplicación” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1 Acción o efecto de reduplicar.

Corpus desk

Index ES-reduplicacion · reduplicación · Spanish

reduplicación · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "R" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for reduplicación
PropertyValue
Headwordreduplicación
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[reð̞uplikaˈsjõn]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cola larga: rango de “reduplicación” en español

reduplicaciónqueda fuera de las 100.000 palabras españolas más frecuentes, en la cola larga de vocabulario técnico, arcaico o raro, justo donde más se duda de la ortografía.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

reduplicación is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [reð̞uplikaˈsjõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reduplicación, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is reduplicación, spelled R-E-D-U-P-L-I-C-A-C-I-Ó-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    1 Acción o efecto de reduplicar.
  2. 2
    repetición de forma consecutiva de una palabra en una oración o en el conjunto de oraciones que forman un periódo. Algunos idiomas usan la reduplicación para generar un plural de algún sustantivo, por ejemplo: coyotl (coyote) o cocoyoh (coyotes), sara (maíz) o sararara (maizal).
  3. 3
    proceso presente en los pidgin y las lenguas criollas, aunque también en otras lenguas, en el que la repetición de una forma indica un cambio semántico o de categoría gramatical.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "reduplicación"?
"reduplicación" is spelled R-E-D-U-P-L-I-C-A-C-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [reð̞uplikaˈsjõn].
What does "reduplicación" mean?
As a noun, "reduplicación" means: 1 Acción o efecto de reduplicar.
How do you pronounce "reduplicación"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "reduplicación" is [reð̞uplikaˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "reduplicación" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list