queratina
[keɾaˈt̪ina]
The verdict
“queratina” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #87,157 among 364 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,157
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proteína que compone el cabello y las uñas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-queratina · queratina · Spanish
queratina · rank #87,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,157
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH quebradizo
Nearest frequency peer: quebradizo (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “queratina”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- púgiles
púgiles
12,848 corpus weight
- quebradizo
quebradizo
12,845 corpus weight
- queratina
queratina
12,844 corpus weight
- Querol
Querol
12,843 corpus weight
- quiebren
quiebren
12,841 corpus weight
- quiebres
quiebres
12,840 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “queratina” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | queratina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [keɾaˈt̪ina] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “queratina” en español
Rare enough to double-check
queratina is uncommon Spanish at frequency #87,157 among 364 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [keɾaˈt̪ina]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Proteína que compone el cabello y las uñas.".
Zero misspellings are on record for queratina in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is queratina, spelled Q-U-E-R-A-T-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Proteína que compone el cabello y las uñas.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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