alcaloide
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#73,335
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
alcaloide is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquiera de los numerosos compuestos orgánicos nitrogenados de propiedades alcalinas, como la morfina, la cocaína y la nicotina, que tienen marcados efectos fisiológicos. Pronounced [alkaˈlojð̞e].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcaloide |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alkaˈlojð̞e] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for alcaloide is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [alkaˈlojð̞e]. Corpus data places it at rank #73,335 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for alcaloide 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 alcaloide, spelled A-L-C-A-L-O-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de los numerosos compuestos orgánicos nitrogenados de propiedades alcalinas, como la morfina, la cocaína y la nicotina, que tienen marcados efectos fisiológicos.
- 2Substancia que puede producir efectos en el organismo humano, en muchos casos perjudiciales.
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Frequency rank: #73,335 in Spanish
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