insulina
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,150
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
insulina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hormona secretada por el páncreas, cuya función es regular el contenido de la glucosa en la sangre. Pronounced [ĩnsuˈlina]. Often confused with insulta and inclina.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | insulina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩnsuˈlina] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for insulina is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩnsuˈlina]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,150 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for insulina, with forms such as "innsulina", "insluina", and "inssulina". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "insulta", "inclina", "insólita", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 insulina, spelled I-N-S-U-L-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hormona secretada por el páncreas, cuya función es regular el contenido de la glucosa en la sangre.
- 2Medicamento que utilizan las personas enfermas de diabetes en forma de inyecciones.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innsulina,insluina,inssulina,insuilna,insulian,insulinna,insullina,insulnia,inuslina,isnulina,nisulina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for insulina
Misspelling Variants of "insulina"
Frequency rank: #19,150 in Spanish
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