meconio

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for meconio is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meˈkonjo]. 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: "Sustancia viscosa y espesa de color verde oscuro compuesta por células muertas y secreciones del estómago e hígado que reviste el intestino del recién nacido y se va formando en el periodo fetal. S...".

No misspelling variants are generated for meconio 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 meconio, spelled M-E-C-O-N-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.