hipófisis
The verdict
“hipófisis” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #70,331 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #70,331
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Glándula endocrina presente en los vertebrados, que segrega las hormonas encargadas de regular la homeostasis y el crecimiento, mediante la función de otras glándulas endocrinas subordinadas, aloja...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hipófisis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [iˈpofisis] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hipófisis” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hipófisis is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [iˈpofisis]. Corpus data places it at rank #70,331 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Glándula endocrina presente en los vertebrados, que segrega las hormonas encargadas de regular la homeostasis y el crecimiento, mediante la función de otras glándulas endocrinas subordinadas, aloja...".
No misspelling variants are generated for hipófisis 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 hipófisis, spelled H-I-P-Ó-F-I-S-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Glándula endocrina presente en los vertebrados, que segrega las hormonas encargadas de regular la homeostasis y el crecimiento, mediante la función de otras glándulas endocrinas subordinadas, alojada en un espacio óseo llamado silla turca, situado en la base del cráneo.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #70,331 in Spanish
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Using “hipófisis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-I-P-Ó-F-I-S-I-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [iˈpofisis] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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