retrovirus
[ret̪ɾoˈβ̞iɾus]
The verdict
“retrovirus” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #85,248 among 4,151 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,248
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Retroviridae) Virus con genoma de ARN monocatenario de polaridad positiva y se replican de manera inusual a través de una forma intermedia de ADN bicatenario.
Corpus desk
Index ES-retrovirus · retrovirus · Spanish
retrovirus · rank #85,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,248
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH retomará
Nearest frequency peer: retomará (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “retrovirus”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- resucitada
resucitada
14,756 corpus weight
- retahíla
retahíla
14,755 corpus weight
- retomará
retomará
14,754 corpus weight
- retrovirus
retrovirus
14,753 corpus weight
- revirtiendo
revirtiendo
14,752 corpus weight
- revuelca
revuelca
14,750 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “retrovirus” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retrovirus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ret̪ɾoˈβ̞iɾus] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “retrovirus” en español
Rare enough to double-check
retrovirus is uncommon Spanish at frequency #85,248 among 4,151 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ret̪ɾoˈβ̞iɾus]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Retroviridae) Virus con genoma de ARN monocatenario de polaridad positiva y se replican de manera inusual a través de una forma intermedia de ADN bicatenario.".
retrovirus has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is retrovirus, spelled R-E-T-R-O-V-I-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1(Retroviridae) Virus con genoma de ARN monocatenario de polaridad positiva y se replican de manera inusual a través de una forma intermedia de ADN bicatenario.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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