dextrosa

/[d̪eksˈt̪ɾosa]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#96,216

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

dextrosa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Azúcar del grupo de los monosacáridos con la fórmula molecular C₆H₁₂O₆ y que es una fuente de energía importante en los procesos metabólicos celulares. Pronounced [d̪eksˈt̪ɾosa].

Key facts for dextrosa
PropertyValue
Headworddextrosa
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[d̪eksˈt̪ɾosa]
Letters8
Frequency rank#96,216
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of dextrosa in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for dextrosa is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eksˈt̪ɾosa]. Corpus data places it at rank #96,216 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Azúcar del grupo de los monosacáridos con la fórmula molecular C₆H₁₂O₆ y que es una fuente de energía importante en los procesos metabólicos celulares.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dextrosa in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 dextrosa, spelled D-E-X-T-R-O-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Azúcar del grupo de los monosacáridos con la fórmula molecular C₆H₁₂O₆ y que es una fuente de energía importante en los procesos metabólicos celulares.

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Frequency rank: #96,216 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dextrosa"?
"dextrosa" is spelled D-E-X-T-R-O-S-A. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪eksˈt̪ɾosa].
What does "dextrosa" mean?
As a noun, "dextrosa" means: Azúcar del grupo de los monosacáridos con la fórmula molecular C₆H₁₂O₆ y que es una fuente de energía importante en los procesos metabólicos celulares.
How do you pronounce "dextrosa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dextrosa" is [d̪eksˈt̪ɾosa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dextrosa" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.