electroforesis
The verdict
“electroforesis” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #98,374 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #98,374
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 14
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Es el más conocido de los cuatro fenómenos electrocinéticos. Es el movimiento de partículas cargadas dentro de un medio de soporte (líquido, gel, papel, etc.) debido a la aplicación de un campo elé...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | electroforesis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [elekt̪ɾofoˈɾesis] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #98,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “electroforesis” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for electroforesis is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [elekt̪ɾofoˈɾesis]. Corpus data places it at rank #98,374 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for electroforesis 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 electroforesis, spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-O-F-O-R-E-S-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Es el más conocido de los cuatro fenómenos electrocinéticos. Es el movimiento de partículas cargadas dentro de un medio de soporte (líquido, gel, papel, etc.) debido a la aplicación de un campo eléctrico.
- 2Técnica de separación de sustancias, principalmente proteínas, basado en el movimiento de los componentes en un coloide bajo el influjo de un campo eléctrico.
Frequency rank: #98,374 in Spanish
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Using “electroforesis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-L-E-C-T-R-O-F-O-R-E-S-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [elekt̪ɾofoˈɾesis] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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