glándula parótida

/[ˈglãn̪d̪ula paˈɾot̪ið̞a]/ phrase

The verdict

“glándula parótida” 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
17
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Glándula salival en número par que produce el 45% de la saliva. Hay una delante de cada oreja en la fosa parótida.

Key facts for glándula parótida
PropertyValue
Headwordglándula parótida
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈglãn̪d̪ula paˈɾot̪ið̞a]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “glándula parótida” sits in Spanish frequency

glándula parótida falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for glándula parótida is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈglãn̪d̪ula paˈɾot̪ið̞a]. 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: "Glándula salival en número par que produce el 45% de la saliva. Hay una delante de cada oreja en la fosa parótida.".

No misspelling variants are generated for glándula parótida 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 glándula parótida, spelled G-L-Á-N-D-U-L-A- -P-A-R-Ó-T-I-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Glándula salival en número par que produce el 45% de la saliva. Hay una delante de cada oreja en la fosa parótida.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "glándula parótida"?
"glándula parótida" is spelled G-L-Á-N-D-U-L-A- -P-A-R-Ó-T-I-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈglãn̪d̪ula paˈɾot̪ið̞a].
What does "glándula parótida" mean?
As a phrase, "glándula parótida" means: Glándula salival en número par que produce el 45% de la saliva. Hay una delante de cada oreja en la fosa parótida.
How do you pronounce "glándula parótida"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "glándula parótida" is [ˈglãn̪d̪ula paˈɾot̪ið̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "glándula parótida" come from?
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Using “glándula parótida”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is G-L-Á-N-D-U-L-A- -P-A-R-Ó-T-I-D-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [ˈglãn̪d̪ula paˈɾot̪ið̞a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.