emulsión

/[emulˈsjõn]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#50,878

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

emulsión is aSpanishnoun. It means: una mezcla de dos o más líquidos que son normalmente inmiscible (nonmixable o unblendable). Las emulsiones son parte de una clase más general de sistemas de dos fases de la materia llamados coloides. Pronounced [emulˈsjõn].

Key facts for emulsión
PropertyValue
Headwordemulsión
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[emulˈsjõn]
Letters8
Frequency rank#50,878
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for emulsión is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [emulˈsjõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,878 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for emulsión 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 emulsión, spelled E-M-U-L-S-I-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    una mezcla de dos o más líquidos que son normalmente inmiscible (nonmixable o unblendable). Las emulsiones son parte de una clase más general de sistemas de dos fases de la materia llamados coloides.
  2. 2
    mezcla mineral producido en frío, que se utiliza para construir la superficie de la carretera.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #50,878 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "emulsión"?
"emulsión" is spelled E-M-U-L-S-I-Ó-N. The IPA pronunciation is [emulˈsjõn].
What does "emulsión" mean?
As a noun, "emulsión" means: una mezcla de dos o más líquidos que son normalmente inmiscible (nonmixable o unblendable). Las emulsiones son parte de una clase más general de sistemas de dos fases de la materia llamados coloides.
How do you pronounce "emulsión"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "emulsión" is [emulˈsjõn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "emulsión" 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.