mitosis
[miˈt̪osis]
The verdict
“mitosis” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #70,461 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,461
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - División celular que conserva la información genética de la célula original. Consta de cuatro fases llamadas: profase, metafase, anafase y telofase.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mitosis · mitosis · Spanish
mitosis · rank #70,461 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,461
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mitocondrias
Nearest frequency peer: mitocondrias (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “mitosis”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- mezcles
mezcles
29,547 corpus weight
- micha
micha
29,546 corpus weight
- mimados
mimados
29,544 corpus weight
- mitocondrias
mitocondrias
29,541 corpus weight
- mitosis
mitosis
29,540 corpus weight
- molero
molero
29,538 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “mitosis” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mitosis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [miˈt̪osis] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “mitosis” en español
Rare enough to double-check
mitosis is uncommon Spanish at frequency #70,461 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [miˈt̪osis]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "División celular que conserva la información genética de la célula original. Consta de cuatro fases llamadas: profase, metafase, anafase y telofase.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mitosis in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is mitosis, spelled M-I-T-O-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1División celular que conserva la información genética de la célula original. Consta de cuatro fases llamadas: profase, metafase, anafase y telofase.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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