rótula
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,373
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
rótula is aSpanishnoun. It means: Hueso que se encuentra en la parte anterior de la rodilla. Se articula con los cóndilos del fémur. es un hueso plano y redondeado que se encuentra incluido en el tendón terminal del músculo cuádric... Pronounced [ˈrot̪ula].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rótula |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrot̪ula] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for rótula is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈrot̪ula]. Corpus data places it at rank #57,373 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for rótula 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 rótula, spelled R-Ó-T-U-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hueso que se encuentra en la parte anterior de la rodilla. Se articula con los cóndilos del fémur. es un hueso plano y redondeado que se encuentra incluido en el tendón terminal del músculo cuádriceps femoral y está situado por delante de la extremidad inferior del fémur.
- 2Tipo de articulación mecánica esférica que conecta el brazo de control a la mangueta de dirección, con tres grados de libertad aunque en dos de ellos el movimiento está acotado.
- 3Trocisco.
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Frequency rank: #57,373 in Spanish
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