conjuntiva
The verdict
“conjuntiva” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #93,929 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #93,929
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Membrana mucosa transparente que tapiza el globo ocular en su parte anterior, desde el limbo hasta los fondos de saco conjuntivales; cubre por lo tanto la esclerótica y se le conoce como conjuntiva...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conjuntiva |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõŋxũn̪ˈt̪iβ̞a] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “conjuntiva” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for conjuntiva is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõŋxũn̪ˈt̪iβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #93,929 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Membrana mucosa transparente que tapiza el globo ocular en su parte anterior, desde el limbo hasta los fondos de saco conjuntivales; cubre por lo tanto la esclerótica y se le conoce como conjuntiva...".
No misspelling variants are generated for conjuntiva 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 conjuntiva, spelled C-O-N-J-U-N-T-I-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Membrana mucosa transparente que tapiza el globo ocular en su parte anterior, desde el limbo hasta los fondos de saco conjuntivales; cubre por lo tanto la esclerótica y se le conoce como conjuntiva bulbar, y también cubre la superficie posterior de los párpados y se le conoce como conjuntiva palpebral. Ayuda a lubricar el globo ocular, produciendo mucosidad y lágrimas, aunque estas en una cantidad menor que las glándulas lagrimales.
Frequency rank: #93,929 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-O-N-J-U-N-T-I-V-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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