intestino grueso
[ĩn̪t̪esˈt̪ino ˈɣ̞ɾweso]
The verdict
“intestino grueso” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Parte del intestino que viene después del intestino delgado, rodeándolo, y conectándose con este por medio de la válvula ileocecal. En el hombre mide 10 cm de grueso y un metro y medio de largo. Se...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intestino grueso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ĩn̪t̪esˈt̪ino ˈɣ̞ɾweso] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “intestino grueso” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for intestino grueso is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩn̪t̪esˈt̪ino ˈɣ̞ɾweso]. 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 intestino que viene después del intestino delgado, rodeándolo, y conectándose con este por medio de la válvula ileocecal. En el hombre mide 10 cm de grueso y un metro y medio de largo. Se...".
No misspelling variants are generated for intestino grueso 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 grueso, spelled I-N-T-E-S-T-I-N-O- -G-R-U-E-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte del intestino que viene después del intestino delgado, rodeándolo, y conectándose con este por medio de la válvula ileocecal. En el hombre mide 10 cm de grueso y un metro y medio de largo. Se compone del ciego, colon ascendente, colon transverso, colon descendente, colon sigmoide o sigma y recto.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is I-N-T-E-S-T-I-N-O- -G-R-U-E-S-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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