crisálida
[kɾiˈsalið̞a]
The verdict
“crisálida” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,773 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,773
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fase del desarrollo de las mariposas, en la que se envuelven en una cápsula que cuelga de un pedúnculo, donde hacen la metamorfosis entre la de oruga y su forma adulta alada.
Corpus desk
Index ES-crisalida · crisálida · Spanish
crisálida · rank #71,773 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,773
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH creída
Nearest frequency peer: creída (-2 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 “crisálida”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- crepuscular
crepuscular
28,232 corpus weight
- creída
creída
28,230 corpus weight
- crisálida
crisálida
28,228 corpus weight
- cruzará
cruzará
28,226 corpus weight
- cubres
cubres
28,225 corpus weight
- cur
cur
28,223 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “crisálida” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crisálida |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɾiˈsalið̞a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “crisálida” en español
Rare enough to double-check
crisálida is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,773 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kɾiˈsalið̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fase del desarrollo de las mariposas, en la que se envuelven en una cápsula que cuelga de un pedúnculo, donde hacen la metamorfosis entre la de oruga y su forma adulta alada.".
crisálida doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct Spanish form is crisálida, spelled C-R-I-S-Á-L-I-D-A.
Definition
- 1Fase del desarrollo de las mariposas, en la que se envuelven en una cápsula que cuelga de un pedúnculo, donde hacen la metamorfosis entre la de oruga y su forma adulta alada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how crisálida appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pasó algún tiempo. Severo se ocupaba de sus crisálidas, próximas a romper el capullo convirtiéndose en mariposas, y quería que Benigno compartiese su entusiasmo, pero cada vez que le hablaba de ello el excelente anciano respondía: -Yo también guardo mi crisálida, que un día tendrá alas y se hará mariposa. Pero las alas de ella serán las de la inteligencia…
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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