celofán
[seloˈfãn]
The verdict
“celofán” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,564 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,564
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Película transparente y flexible, obtenida a partir de la regeneración de la celulosa. La fibra vegetal original se disuelve en una medio alcalino para producir viscosa, que posteriormente se reint...
Corpus desk
Index ES-celofan · celofán · Spanish
celofán · rank #67,564 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,564
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cegar
Nearest frequency peer: cegar (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “celofán”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cebos
cebos
32,440 corpus weight
- cediera
cediera
32,439 corpus weight
- cegar
cegar
32,438 corpus weight
- celofán
celofán
32,437 corpus weight
- centésimas
centésimas
32,436 corpus weight
- cerrajeros
cerrajeros
32,435 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “celofán” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | celofán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seloˈfãn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “celofán” en español
Rare enough to double-check
celofán is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,564 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [seloˈfãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Película transparente y flexible, obtenida a partir de la regeneración de la celulosa. La fibra vegetal original se disuelve en una medio alcalino para producir viscosa, que posteriormente se reint...".
Zero misspellings are on record for celofán in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 celofán, spelled C-E-L-O-F-Á-N.
Definition
- 1Película transparente y flexible, obtenida a partir de la regeneración de la celulosa. La fibra vegetal original se disuelve en una medio alcalino para producir viscosa, que posteriormente se reintroduce en un baño ácido a través de una delgada ranura, dando origen a la lámina de celulosa. Es de uso generalizado en envases y envueltos.
This word in other languages
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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