rodio
[ˈroð̞jo]
The verdict
“rodio” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #92,404 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #92,404
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — El rodio es un elemento químico de número atómico 45 situado en el grupo 9 de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Su símbolo es Rh. Es un metal de transición, poco abundante, del grupo del platino...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rodio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈroð̞jo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rodio” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rodio is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈroð̞jo]. Corpus data places it at rank #92,404 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "El rodio es un elemento químico de número atómico 45 situado en el grupo 9 de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Su símbolo es Rh. Es un metal de transición, poco abundante, del grupo del platino...".
No misspelling variants are generated for rodio 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 rodio, spelled R-O-D-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1El rodio es un elemento químico de número atómico 45 situado en el grupo 9 de la tabla periódica de los elementos. Su símbolo es Rh. Es un metal de transición, poco abundante, del grupo del platino. Se encuentra normalmente en minas de platino y se emplea como catalizador en algunas aleaciones de platino.
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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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Using “rodio”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-O-D-I-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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