quimeriforme

/[kimeɾiˈfoɾme]/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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quimeriforme is aSpanishnoun. It means: Orden de peces cartilaginosos, el único superviviente de la subclase Holocephali, que incluye las quimeras o tiburones fantasma. La morfología de estos animales se conoce desde finales del Devónico... Pronounced [kimeɾiˈfoɾme].

Key facts for quimeriforme
PropertyValue
Headwordquimeriforme
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[kimeɾiˈfoɾme]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

quimeriforme 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 quimeriforme is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kimeɾiˈfoɾme]. 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: "Orden de peces cartilaginosos, el único superviviente de la subclase Holocephali, que incluye las quimeras o tiburones fantasma. La morfología de estos animales se conoce desde finales del Devónico...".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Orden de peces cartilaginosos, el único superviviente de la subclase Holocephali, que incluye las quimeras o tiburones fantasma. La morfología de estos animales se conoce desde finales del Devónico, pero en la actualidad solo sobreviven 47 especies.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quimeriforme"?
"quimeriforme" is spelled Q-U-I-M-E-R-I-F-O-R-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is [kimeɾiˈfoɾme].
What does "quimeriforme" mean?
As a noun, "quimeriforme" means: Orden de peces cartilaginosos, el único superviviente de la subclase Holocephali, que incluye las quimeras o tiburones fantasma. La morfología de estos animales se conoce desde finales del Devónico...
How do you pronounce "quimeriforme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "quimeriforme" is [kimeɾiˈfoɾme]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "quimeriforme" 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.