próstata

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for próstata is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpɾost̪at̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,782 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Órgano glandular exocrino perteneciente al aparato reproductor masculino, que tiene una gran influencia en el aparato urinario, situado debajo de la vejiga. Su función principal es la nutrición y p...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for próstata, with forms such as "ppróstata", "prróstata", and "prsótata". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "posdata", "prestada", "prestaba", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is próstata, spelled P-R-Ó-S-T-A-T-A.