reflejo pilomotor
[reˈflexo pilomoˈt̪oɾ]
The verdict
“reflejo pilomotor” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Respuesta fisiológica involuntaria que ocurre en la piel y se caracteriza por el levantamiento temporal de los pequeños vellos o pelos en la piel debido a la contracción de los músculos arrectores ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reflejo pilomotor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [reˈflexo pilomoˈt̪oɾ] |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “reflejo pilomotor” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for reflejo pilomotor is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reˈflexo pilomoˈt̪oɾ]. 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: "Respuesta fisiológica involuntaria que ocurre en la piel y se caracteriza por el levantamiento temporal de los pequeños vellos o pelos en la piel debido a la contracción de los músculos arrectores ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for reflejo pilomotor in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 reflejo pilomotor, spelled R-E-F-L-E-J-O- -P-I-L-O-M-O-T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Respuesta fisiológica involuntaria que ocurre en la piel y se caracteriza por el levantamiento temporal de los pequeños vellos o pelos en la piel debido a la contracción de los músculos arrectores pili.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-E-F-L-E-J-O- -P-I-L-O-M-O-T-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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