sustantivación
Spanish, noun/sustantibaˈθjon/
sustantivación is spelled S-U-S-T-A-N-T-I-V-A-C-I-Ó-N (14 letters) and appears about once in every 60 million words in written Spanish, the 271,310th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sustantivación is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “nominalization, substantivisation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción y resultado de crear un sustantivo de una palabra o grupo de palabras que originalmente tienen otra…”.
What does sustantivación mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininenominalization, substantivisation
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción y resultado de crear un sustantivo de una palabra o grupo de palabras que originalmente tienen otra categoría gramatical.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sustantivación
- sustantivaciones plural
- substantivación alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sustantivación?
- /sustantibaˈθjon/
- [sus.t̪ãn̪.t̪i.β̞aˈθjõn]
- /sustantibaˈsjon/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is sustantivación in Spanish?
sustantivación appears about once in every 60 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).