glándula sublingual
The verdict
“glándula sublingual” 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
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cada una de las dos glándulas salivales mayores que están bajo la lengua y que secretan saliva por una veintena de conductos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glándula sublingual |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈglãn̪d̪ula suβ̞lĩŋˈgwal] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “glándula sublingual” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for glándula sublingual is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈglãn̪d̪ula suβ̞lĩŋˈgwal]. 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 glándulas salivales mayores que están bajo la lengua y que secretan saliva por una veintena de conductos.".
No misspelling variants are generated for glándula sublingual 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 sublingual, spelled G-L-Á-N-D-U-L-A- -S-U-B-L-I-N-G-U-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 glándulas salivales mayores que están bajo la lengua y que secretan saliva por una veintena de conductos.
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Using “glándula sublingual”
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- -S-U-B-L-I-N-G-U-A-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈglãn̪d̪ula suβ̞lĩŋˈgwal] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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