membrana pleural
[mẽmˈbɾana plewˈɾal]
The verdict
“membrana pleural” 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) - Membrana doble que cubre y protege los pulmones del roce contra la pared torácica. La membrana interna que va junto al pulmón, membrana visceral, está separada por un espacio virtual (cavidad pleur...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | membrana pleural |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [mẽmˈbɾana plewˈɾal] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “membrana pleural” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for membrana pleural is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mẽmˈbɾana plewˈɾal]. 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: "Membrana doble que cubre y protege los pulmones del roce contra la pared torácica. La membrana interna que va junto al pulmón, membrana visceral, está separada por un espacio virtual (cavidad pleur...".
No misspelling variants are generated for membrana pleural 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 membrana pleural, spelled M-E-M-B-R-A-N-A- -P-L-E-U-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Membrana doble que cubre y protege los pulmones del roce contra la pared torácica. La membrana interna que va junto al pulmón, membrana visceral, está separada por un espacio virtual (cavidad pleural), de la membrana más externa, membrana parietal o costal; y ambas se deslizan en la cavidad virtual al respirar, gracias a un líquido que actúa como lubricante.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-E-M-B-R-A-N-A- -P-L-E-U-R-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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