dióxido de carbono
[ˈd̪joksið̞o ð̞e kaɾˈβ̞ono]
The verdict
“dióxido de carbono” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Compuesto de carbono y oxígeno, de fórmula CO₂, que existe como gas incoloro en condiciones de temperatura y presión estándar. Es un asfixiante simple y tiene diversas aplicaciones en la industria.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dióxido de carbono |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈd̪joksið̞o ð̞e kaɾˈβ̞ono] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dióxido de carbono” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for dióxido de carbono is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈd̪joksið̞o ð̞e kaɾˈβ̞ono]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Compuesto de carbono y oxígeno, de fórmula CO₂, que existe como gas incoloro en condiciones de temperatura y presión estándar. Es un asfixiante simple y tiene diversas aplicaciones en la industria.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dióxido de carbono 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 dióxido de carbono, spelled D-I-Ó-X-I-D-O- -D-E- -C-A-R-B-O-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Compuesto de carbono y oxígeno, de fórmula CO₂, que existe como gas incoloro en condiciones de temperatura y presión estándar. Es un asfixiante simple y tiene diversas aplicaciones en la industria.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-I-Ó-X-I-D-O- -D-E- -C-A-R-B-O-N-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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