receptor
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,527
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
receptor is anSpanishadj. It means: Que recepta o recibe. Pronounced [resepˈt̪oɾ]. It ranks #9,527 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with rector and redentor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | receptor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [resepˈt̪oɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for receptor is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [resepˈt̪oɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,527 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for receptor, with forms such as "erceptor", "rceeptor", and "recceptor". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "rector", "redentor", "receptora", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 receptor, spelled R-E-C-E-P-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que recepta o recibe.
- 2Dícese del motor que recibe la energía de un generador instalado a distancia.
- 3Dícese del aparato que sirve para recibir las señales eléctricas, telegráficas o telefónicas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erceptor,rceeptor,recceptor,recepotr,recepptor,receptorr,receptro,recepttor,recetpor,recpetor,reecptor,reseptor,rreceptor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for receptor
Misspelling Variants of "receptor"
Frequency rank: #9,527 in Spanish
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