fosa nasal
[ˈfosa naˈsal]
The verdict
“fosa nasal” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Cada una de las dos cavidades de la nariz, separadas por el tabique nasal, comunicadas con el exterior por los orificios nasales o narinas, y comunicadas con la faringe por un par de aberturas llam...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fosa nasal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈfosa naˈsal] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fosa nasal” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for fosa nasal is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfosa naˈsal]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cada una de las dos cavidades de la nariz, separadas por el tabique nasal, comunicadas con el exterior por los orificios nasales o narinas, y comunicadas con la faringe por un par de aberturas llam...".
No misspelling variants are generated for fosa nasal 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 fosa nasal, spelled F-O-S-A- -N-A-S-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada una de las dos cavidades de la nariz, separadas por el tabique nasal, comunicadas con el exterior por los orificios nasales o narinas, y comunicadas con la faringe por un par de aberturas llamadas coanas
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.
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Using “fosa nasal”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is F-O-S-A- -N-A-S-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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