urbanización
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,914
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
19
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
urbanización is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de urbanizar (acondicionar un espacio para la vida de ciudad, trazando calles, construyendo edificios y acueducto, etc.) o de urbanizarse (adquirir hábitos de urbanidad o cortesía). Pronounced [uɾβ̞anisaˈsjõn]. It ranks #9,914 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with urbanizaciones.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urbanización |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [uɾβ̞anisaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #9,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for urbanización is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [uɾβ̞anisaˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,914 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 19 documented wrong-spelling variants for urbanización, with forms such as "rubanización", "ubranización", and "urabnización". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "urbanizaciones", 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 urbanización, spelled U-R-B-A-N-I-Z-A-C-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de urbanizar (acondicionar un espacio para la vida de ciudad, trazando calles, construyendo edificios y acueducto, etc.) o de urbanizarse (adquirir hábitos de urbanidad o cortesía).
- 2Proceso de crecimiento y desarrollo de las ciudades.
- 3Área urbanizada₁ donde se han constuido casas o edificios de apartamentos para la vivienda; centro residencial, a menudo homogéneo y a veces cerrado.
- 4Asentamiento humano planificado y organizado de personas de estratos sociales medio o alto.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rubanización,ubranización,urabnización,urbainzación,urbaniazción,urbanizacción,urbanizacinó,urbanizaciónn,urbanizacóin,urbanizaicón,urbanizasión,urbanizcaión,urbanizzación,urbannización,urbanziación,urbbanización,urbnaización,urrbanización,urvanización
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for urbanización
Misspelling Variants of "urbanización"
Frequency rank: #9,914 in Spanish
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