sublimación
[suβ̞limaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“sublimación” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #58,130 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #58,130
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acción o efecto de sublimar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sublimación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [suβ̞limaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #58,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sublimación” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sublimación is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [suβ̞limaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #58,130 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sublimación, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 sublimación, spelled S-U-B-L-I-M-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de sublimar.
- 2Cambio de estado de sólido a gaseoso, sin pasar por el líquido.
- 3Engrandecimiento o ensalzamiento de algo.
- 4Transferencia de la energía de los impulsos biológicos como el sexual a otros objetivos más aceptados moralmente, socialmente, o estéticamente.
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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 “sublimación”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-U-B-L-I-M-A-C-I-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [suβ̞limaˈsjõn] (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.