intestino delgado
[ĩn̪t̪esˈt̪ino ð̞elˈɣ̞að̞o]
The verdict
“intestino delgado” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Parte del tubo digestivo con una forma de manguera que da varias vueltas; que sigue al estómago y termina en el ciego. En el ser humano mide cinco o seis metros. Su función es terminar la degradaci...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intestino delgado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ĩn̪t̪esˈt̪ino ð̞elˈɣ̞að̞o] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “intestino delgado” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for intestino delgado is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩn̪t̪esˈt̪ino ð̞elˈɣ̞að̞o]. 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: "Parte del tubo digestivo con una forma de manguera que da varias vueltas; que sigue al estómago y termina en el ciego. En el ser humano mide cinco o seis metros. Su función es terminar la degradaci...".
No misspelling variants are generated for intestino delgado 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 intestino delgado, spelled I-N-T-E-S-T-I-N-O- -D-E-L-G-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte del tubo digestivo con una forma de manguera que da varias vueltas; que sigue al estómago y termina en el ciego. En el ser humano mide cinco o seis metros. Su función es terminar la degradación de los alimentos a moléculas (monosacáridos, ácidos grasos, triglicéridos, aminoácidos) que son absorbidas por la pared intestinal.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is I-N-T-E-S-T-I-N-O- -D-E-L-G-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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