crisálida
[kɾiˈsalið̞a]
The verdict
“crisálida” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,773 among 77,812 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,773
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 77,812
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “crisálida” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
crisálida is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,773 among 77,812 “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.
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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Using “crisálida”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-R-I-S-Á-L-I-D-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.