nitroglicerina
[nit̪ɾoɣ̞liseˈɾina]
The verdict
“nitroglicerina” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #82,236 among 7,828 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,236
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,828
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Compuesto orgánico altamente explosivo y líquido a temperatura ambiente, obtenido de la mezcla de ácido nítrico concentrado y glicerina, utilizado en la fabricación de la dinamita. Su fórmula molec...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nitroglicerina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [nit̪ɾoɣ̞liseˈɾina] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #82,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nitroglicerina” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
nitroglicerina is uncommon Spanish at frequency #82,236 among 7,828 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [nit̪ɾoɣ̞liseˈɾina]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Compuesto orgánico altamente explosivo y líquido a temperatura ambiente, obtenido de la mezcla de ácido nítrico concentrado y glicerina, utilizado en la fabricación de la dinamita. Su fórmula molec...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nitroglicerina, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is nitroglicerina, spelled N-I-T-R-O-G-L-I-C-E-R-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Compuesto orgánico altamente explosivo y líquido a temperatura ambiente, obtenido de la mezcla de ácido nítrico concentrado y glicerina, utilizado en la fabricación de la dinamita. Su fórmula molecular es C₃H₅N₃O₉.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is N-I-T-R-O-G-L-I-C-E-R-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.