naftalina

/[naft̪aˈlina]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#73,881

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

naftalina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hidrocarburo sólido y blanco, muy usado como antiséptico y desinfectante, también para proteger la ropa contra las polillas. Pronounced [naft̪aˈlina].

Key facts for naftalina
PropertyValue
Headwordnaftalina
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[naft̪aˈlina]
Letters9
Frequency rank#73,881
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of naftalina in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for naftalina is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [naft̪aˈlina]. Corpus data places it at rank #73,881 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Hidrocarburo sólido y blanco, muy usado como antiséptico y desinfectante, también para proteger la ropa contra las polillas.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for naftalina in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 naftalina, spelled N-A-F-T-A-L-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Hidrocarburo sólido y blanco, muy usado como antiséptico y desinfectante, también para proteger la ropa contra las polillas.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #73,881 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "naftalina"?
"naftalina" is spelled N-A-F-T-A-L-I-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [naft̪aˈlina].
What does "naftalina" mean?
As a noun, "naftalina" means: Hidrocarburo sólido y blanco, muy usado como antiséptico y desinfectante, también para proteger la ropa contra las polillas.
How do you pronounce "naftalina"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "naftalina" is [naft̪aˈlina]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "naftalina" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.