epinefrina
[epineˈfɾina]
The verdict
“epinefrina” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #90,879 among 101,141 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,879
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 101,141
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hormona vasoactiva catecolamínica que secreta la médula adrenal de los mamíferos, movida por el sistema parasimpático, en situaciones de alerta. Estimula el flujo sanguíneo hacia ciertos tejidos mu...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | epinefrina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [epineˈfɾina] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #90,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “epinefrina” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
epinefrina is uncommon Spanish at frequency #90,879 among 101,141 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [epineˈfɾina]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hormona vasoactiva catecolamínica que secreta la médula adrenal de los mamíferos, movida por el sistema parasimpático, en situaciones de alerta. Estimula el flujo sanguíneo hacia ciertos tejidos mu...".
epinefrina doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is epinefrina, spelled E-P-I-N-E-F-R-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Hormona vasoactiva catecolamínica que secreta la médula adrenal de los mamíferos, movida por el sistema parasimpático, en situaciones de alerta. Estimula el flujo sanguíneo hacia ciertos tejidos musculares e incrementa la cantidad de glucosa en la sangre.
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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 “epinefrina”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-P-I-N-E-F-R-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.