profase

/[pɾoˈfase]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

profase is aSpanishnoun. It means: Primera fase de la división celular del tipo mitosis y de la meiosis. En ella se produce la condensación de todo el material genético (ADN) que normalmente existe en forma de cromatina condensada d... Pronounced [pɾoˈfase].

Key facts for profase
PropertyValue
Headwordprofase
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pɾoˈfase]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for profase is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɾoˈfase]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Primera fase de la división celular del tipo mitosis y de la meiosis. En ella se produce la condensación de todo el material genético (ADN) que normalmente existe en forma de cromatina condensada d...".

No misspelling variants are generated for profase 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 profase, spelled P-R-O-F-A-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Primera fase de la división celular del tipo mitosis y de la meiosis. En ella se produce la condensación de todo el material genético (ADN) que normalmente existe en forma de cromatina condensada dentro de una estructura altamente ordenada llamada cromosoma y el desarrollo bipolar del huso mitótico.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "profase"?
"profase" is spelled P-R-O-F-A-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is [pɾoˈfase].
What does "profase" mean?
As a noun, "profase" means: Primera fase de la división celular del tipo mitosis y de la meiosis. En ella se produce la condensación de todo el material genético (ADN) que normalmente existe en forma de cromatina condensada d...
How do you pronounce "profase"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "profase" is [pɾoˈfase]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "profase" come from?
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Data Source: 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.