feromona
[feɾoˈmona]
The verdict
“feromona” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cualquiera de las sustancias secretadas por los seres vivos, con el fin de provocar comportamientos específicos en otros individuos de la misma especie. Son un medio de transmisión de señales volát...
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Index ES-feromona · feromona · Spanish
feromona · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | feromona |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [feɾoˈmona] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “feromona” en español
Rare enough to double-check
feromona is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [feɾoˈmona]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cualquiera de las sustancias secretadas por los seres vivos, con el fin de provocar comportamientos específicos en otros individuos de la misma especie. Son un medio de transmisión de señales volát...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for feromona in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is feromona, spelled F-E-R-O-M-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de las sustancias secretadas por los seres vivos, con el fin de provocar comportamientos específicos en otros individuos de la misma especie. Son un medio de transmisión de señales volátiles producidas en forma líquida, que luego se dispersan por el ambiente.
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.