metafase

/[met̪aˈfase]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

metafase is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fase de la división celular del tipo mitosis y de la meiosis que sucede a la profase. En esta los cromosomas condensados, que llevan la información genética, se alinean en el centro de la célula an... Pronounced [met̪aˈfase].

Key facts for metafase
PropertyValue
Headwordmetafase
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[met̪aˈfase]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

metafase is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for metafase is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [met̪aˈfase]. 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: "Fase de la división celular del tipo mitosis y de la meiosis que sucede a la profase. En esta los cromosomas condensados, que llevan la información genética, se alinean en el centro de la célula an...".

No misspelling variants are generated for metafase 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 metafase, spelled M-E-T-A-F-A-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Fase de la división celular del tipo mitosis y de la meiosis que sucede a la profase. En esta los cromosomas condensados, que llevan la información genética, se alinean en el centro de la célula antes de separarse en dos células hijas.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "metafase"?
"metafase" is spelled M-E-T-A-F-A-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is [met̪aˈfase].
What does "metafase" mean?
As a noun, "metafase" means: Fase de la división celular del tipo mitosis y de la meiosis que sucede a la profase. En esta los cromosomas condensados, que llevan la información genética, se alinean en el centro de la célula an...
How do you pronounce "metafase"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "metafase" is [met̪aˈfase]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "metafase" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.