sinapsis
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,608
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
sinapsis is aSpanishnoun. It means: Comunicación entre las neuronas, con intercambio de señales químicas y eléctricas: Tiene lugar en los botones sinápticos ubicados en los extremos de cada una de las ramificaciones del axón, que env... Pronounced [siˈnapsis]. Often confused with síntesis and sinopsis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sinapsis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siˈnapsis] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sinapsis is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [siˈnapsis]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,608 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for sinapsis, with forms such as "cinapcis", "isnapsis", and "sianpsis". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "síntesis", "sinopsis", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 sinapsis, spelled S-I-N-A-P-S-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Comunicación entre las neuronas, con intercambio de señales químicas y eléctricas: Tiene lugar en los botones sinápticos ubicados en los extremos de cada una de las ramificaciones del axón, que envía señales de una neurona, y de las dendritas, que reciben las señales en otra neurona.
- 2Apareamiento de los cromosomas homólogos, durante la meiosis, momento en que ocurre el intercambio de material genético entre ellos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cinapcis,isnapsis,sianpsis,sinapiss,sinappsis,sinapsiss,sinapssi,sinapssis,sinaspis,sinnapsis,sinpasis,sniapsis,ssinapsis
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Misspelling Variants of "sinapsis"
Frequency rank: #45,608 in Spanish
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