posología

/[posoloˈxia]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

posología is aSpanishnoun. It means: Rama de la farmacología que estudia las cantidades a administrar de los medicamentos. Se ayuda de otras ciencias tales como la metrología, la terapéutica y la fisiología entre otras. Pronounced [posoloˈxia].

Key facts for posología
PropertyValue
Headwordposología
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[posoloˈxia]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

posología is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for posología is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [posoloˈxia]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for posología 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 posología, spelled P-O-S-O-L-O-G-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rama de la farmacología que estudia las cantidades a administrar de los medicamentos. Se ayuda de otras ciencias tales como la metrología, la terapéutica y la fisiología entre otras.
  2. 2
    Cadencia (número de unidades por período de tiempo) y duración de la toma de un medicamento.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "posología"?
"posología" is spelled P-O-S-O-L-O-G-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [posoloˈxia].
What does "posología" mean?
As a noun, "posología" means: Rama de la farmacología que estudia las cantidades a administrar de los medicamentos. Se ayuda de otras ciencias tales como la metrología, la terapéutica y la fisiología entre otras.
How do you pronounce "posología"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "posología" is [posoloˈxia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "posología" come from?
"posología" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.