núcleo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,732
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
núcleo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Lo que está en el medio de algo, parte central o medular. Pronounced [ˈnukleo]. It ranks #4,732 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with nulo and núcleos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | núcleo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnukleo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for núcleo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnukleo]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,732 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for núcleo, with forms such as "ncúleo", "nnúcleo", and "núccleo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "nulo", "núcleos", "nuclear", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 núcleo, spelled N-Ú-C-L-E-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lo que está en el medio de algo, parte central o medular.
- 2Lo más importante, central, medular de algo.
- 3Conjunto de personas unidas por un interés común u otro tipo de afinidad o característica común.
- 4Conjunto de viviendas de un determinado lugar.
- 5Conjunto de cosas con características comunes.
- 6Parte dura y no comestible de ciertas frutas.
- 7Parte comestible de nueces, avellanas, almendras y frutos similares.
- 8En algunos partidos y movimientos políticos, agrupación de base de los militantes.
- 9Parte central del átomo compuesta por protones y neutrones.
- 10Parte central de la Tierra.
- 11Parte central de un astro.
- 12Parte central del sintagma.
- 13Parte central y redondeada de la célula eucariota, separada del citoplasma por una membrana nuclear, que contiene el nucleoplasma, nucléolo y ADN.
- 14En una matriz o una transformación lineal, conjunto de vectores que al multiplicar a la matriz de transformación producen el vector nulo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ncúleo,nnúcleo,núccleo,núcelo,núclleo,núcloe,núlceo,úncleo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for núcleo
Misspelling Variants of "núcleo"
Frequency rank: #4,732 in Spanish
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