colesterol
[kolest̪eˈɾol]
The verdict
“colesterol” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #16,789. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,789
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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 ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-colesterol · colesterol · Spanish
colesterol · rank #16,789 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,789
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH Cisneros
Nearest frequency peer: Cisneros (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “colesterol”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cilindros
cilindros
83,215 corpus weight
- Ciro
Ciro
83,214 corpus weight
- Cisneros
Cisneros
83,213 corpus weight
- colesterol
colesterol
83,212 corpus weight
- comprobación
comprobación
83,210 corpus weight
- compu
compu
83,209 corpus weight
What this shows “colesterol” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
| 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) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “colesterol”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around colesterol (IPA [kolest̪eˈɾol]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,789 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is colesterol, spelled C-O-L-E-S-T-E-R-O-L.
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.
This word in other languages
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 - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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