queratina

/[keɾaˈt̪ina]/ noun

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].

Key facts for queratina
PropertyValue
Headwordqueratina
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[keɾaˈt̪ina]
Letters9
Frequency rank#87,157
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of queratina in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Proteína que compone el cabello y las uñas.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #87,157 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "queratina"?
"queratina" is spelled Q-U-E-R-A-T-I-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [keɾaˈt̪ina].
What does "queratina" mean?
As a noun, "queratina" means: Proteína que compone el cabello y las uñas.
How do you pronounce "queratina"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "queratina" is [keɾaˈt̪ina]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "queratina" come from?
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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.