glándula parótida
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glándula parótida |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈglãn̪d̪ula paˈɾot̪ið̞a] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “glándula parótida” sits in Spanish frequency
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
- 1Glándula salival en número par que produce el 45% de la saliva. Hay una delante de cada oreja en la fosa parótida.
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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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