queratina
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#87,157
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
queratina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Proteína que compone el cabello y las uñas. Pronounced [keɾaˈt̪ina].
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for queratina is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [keɾaˈt̪ina]. Corpus data places it at rank #87,157 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Proteína que compone el cabello y las uñas.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for queratina 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 queratina, spelled Q-U-E-R-A-T-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Proteína que compone el cabello y las uñas.
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Frequency rank: #87,157 in Spanish
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