urbanizar
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#63,484
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
urbanizar is aSpanishverb. It means: Construir lo necesario para que una zona tenga las condiciones típicas de una ciudad (calles pavimentadas, iluminación pública, acceso a servicios de electricidad y alcantarillado, etc.). Pronounced [uɾβ̞aniˈsaɾ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urbanizar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [uɾβ̞aniˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,484 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for urbanizar is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [uɾβ̞aniˈsaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #63,484 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for urbanizar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 urbanizar, spelled U-R-B-A-N-I-Z-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Construir lo necesario para que una zona tenga las condiciones típicas de una ciudad (calles pavimentadas, iluminación pública, acceso a servicios de electricidad y alcantarillado, etc.).
- 2Educar o instruir a alguien para que adopte las normas de urbanidad, cortesía, buenos modales o sociabilidad.
- 3Inducir a que se adopte un modo de vida típico de las ciudades.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #63,484 in Spanish
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