médula espinal
[ˈmeð̞ula espiˈnal]
The verdict
“médula espinal” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Parte del sistema nervioso central, prolongación del encéfalo por el interior de la columna vertebral, que tiene como función recibir y organizar los impulsos nerviosos sensitivos y motores, desde ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médula espinal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmeð̞ula espiˈnal] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “médula espinal” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for médula espinal is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmeð̞ula espiˈnal]. 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 sistema nervioso central, prolongación del encéfalo por el interior de la columna vertebral, que tiene como función recibir y organizar los impulsos nerviosos sensitivos y motores, desde ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for médula espinal 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 médula espinal, spelled M-É-D-U-L-A- -E-S-P-I-N-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte del sistema nervioso central, prolongación del encéfalo por el interior de la columna vertebral, que tiene como función recibir y organizar los impulsos nerviosos sensitivos y motores, desde el cerebro y hacia él.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-É-D-U-L-A- -E-S-P-I-N-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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