serpentina
[seɾpẽn̪ˈt̪ina]
The verdict
“serpentina” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #69,799 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #69,799
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Tira de papel, usualmente de colores, enrollada que en algunas celebraciones se arrojan unas personas a otras.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serpentina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seɾpẽn̪ˈt̪ina] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “serpentina” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for serpentina is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seɾpẽn̪ˈt̪ina]. Corpus data places it at rank #69,799 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for serpentina 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 serpentina, spelled S-E-R-P-E-N-T-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tira de papel, usualmente de colores, enrollada que en algunas celebraciones se arrojan unas personas a otras.
- 2Serpentín (instrumento para mosquete).
- 3Serpentín (pieza de armas de fuego).
- 4Venablo antiguo cuyo hierro forma ondas como la serpiente cuando se arrastra.
- 5Piedra de color verdoso, con manchas o venas más o menos obscuras, casi tan dura como el mármol, tenaz, que admite hermoso pulimento y tiene mucha aplicación en las artes decorativas. Es un silicato de magnesia teñido por óxidos de hierro.
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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- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-E-R-P-E-N-T-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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