queratotomía

/[keɾat̪ot̪oˈmia]/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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queratotomía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Procedimiento quirúrgico que consiste en incisiones profundas en la córnea para tratar de reducir la miopía y el astigmatismo. Pronounced [keɾat̪ot̪oˈmia].

Key facts for queratotomía
PropertyValue
Headwordqueratotomía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[keɾat̪ot̪oˈmia]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for queratotomía is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [keɾat̪ot̪oˈmia]. 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: "Procedimiento quirúrgico que consiste en incisiones profundas en la córnea para tratar de reducir la miopía y el astigmatismo.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for queratotomía 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 queratotomía, spelled Q-U-E-R-A-T-O-T-O-M-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Procedimiento quirúrgico que consiste en incisiones profundas en la córnea para tratar de reducir la miopía y el astigmatismo.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "queratotomía"?
"queratotomía" is spelled Q-U-E-R-A-T-O-T-O-M-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [keɾat̪ot̪oˈmia].
What does "queratotomía" mean?
As a noun, "queratotomía" means: Procedimiento quirúrgico que consiste en incisiones profundas en la córnea para tratar de reducir la miopía y el astigmatismo.
How do you pronounce "queratotomía"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "queratotomía" is [keɾat̪ot̪oˈmia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "queratotomía" 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.