oxitocina

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for oxitocina is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oksit̪oˈsina]. Corpus data places it at rank #65,586 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Hormona cuya función más conocida es la estimulación de las contracciones uterinas durante el parto y la liberación de leche durante la lactancia, se produce por los núcleos supraóptico y paraventr...".

No misspelling variants are generated for oxitocina 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 oxitocina, spelled O-X-I-T-O-C-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.