colesterol
The verdict
“colesterol” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #16,789 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #16,789
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Lipido de esterol sintetizado por el hígado y transportado en el torrente sanguíneo a las membranas de todas las células animales; desempeña un papel central en muchos procesos bioquímicos y, como ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | colesterol |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kolest̪eˈɾol] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “colesterol” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for colesterol is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kolest̪eˈɾol]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,789 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Lipido de esterol sintetizado por el hígado y transportado en el torrente sanguíneo a las membranas de todas las células animales; desempeña un papel central en muchos procesos bioquímicos y, como ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for colesterol, with forms such as "ccolesterol", "cloesterol", and "coelsterol". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. 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 colesterol, spelled C-O-L-E-S-T-E-R-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lipido de esterol sintetizado por el hígado y transportado en el torrente sanguíneo a las membranas de todas las células animales; desempeña un papel central en muchos procesos bioquímicos y, como una lipoproteína que recubre las paredes de los vasos sanguíneos, se asocia con enfermedades cardiovasculares.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccolesterol,cloesterol,coelsterol,colesetrol,colessterol,colesteorl,colesterlo,colesteroll,colesterrol,colestreol,colestterol,coletserol,collesterol,colseterol,oclesterol
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of colesterol — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "colesterol"
Frequency rank: #16,789 in Spanish
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Using “colesterol”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-L-E-S-T-E-R-O-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kolest̪eˈɾol] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
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