clorofila
The verdict
“clorofila” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #53,427 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #53,427
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Familia de pigmentos que se encuentran en las cianobacterias y en todos aquellos organismos que contienen plastos en sus células, lo que incluye a las plantas y a los diversos grupos de protistas q...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clorofila |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kloɾoˈfila] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “clorofila” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for clorofila is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kloɾoˈfila]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,427 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Familia de pigmentos que se encuentran en las cianobacterias y en todos aquellos organismos que contienen plastos en sus células, lo que incluye a las plantas y a los diversos grupos de protistas q...".
No misspelling variants are generated for clorofila 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 clorofila, spelled C-L-O-R-O-F-I-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Familia de pigmentos que se encuentran en las cianobacterias y en todos aquellos organismos que contienen plastos en sus células, lo que incluye a las plantas y a los diversos grupos de protistas que son llamados algas. La función de las clorofilas es la absorción de energía luminosa en la variante de la fotosíntesis que llamamos fotosíntesis oxigénica, la que es característica de los organismos antes enumerados.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #53,427 in Spanish
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-L-O-R-O-F-I-L-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kloɾoˈfila] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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