folículo
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#66,177
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
folículo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fruto monocarpelar, con una valva o ventalla, que se rompe a lo largo por un solo lado, y que contiene sujetas las semillas en un receptáculo propio. Pronounced [foˈlikulo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | folículo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [foˈlikulo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,177 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for folículo is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [foˈlikulo]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,177 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 folículo 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 folículo, spelled F-O-L-Í-C-U-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fruto monocarpelar, con una valva o ventalla, que se rompe a lo largo por un solo lado, y que contiene sujetas las semillas en un receptáculo propio.
- 2Glándula sencilla, en forma de saquito, situada en la superficie de la piel o de las mucosas.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #66,177 in Spanish
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