tetrahidrocannabinol
[t̪et̪ɾajð̞ɾokãnnaβ̞iˈnol]
The verdict
“tetrahidrocannabinol” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Principal constituyente psicoactivo del cannabis que, en estado puro, es un sólido vítreo a bajas temperaturas que se torna viscoso y pegajoso al calentarlo. Es poco soluble en agua, pero se disuel...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tetrahidrocannabinol |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪et̪ɾajð̞ɾokãnnaβ̞iˈnol] |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tetrahidrocannabinol” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tetrahidrocannabinol is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪et̪ɾajð̞ɾokãnnaβ̞iˈnol]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Principal constituyente psicoactivo del cannabis que, en estado puro, es un sólido vítreo a bajas temperaturas que se torna viscoso y pegajoso al calentarlo. Es poco soluble en agua, pero se disuel...".
No misspelling variants are generated for tetrahidrocannabinol 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 tetrahidrocannabinol, spelled T-E-T-R-A-H-I-D-R-O-C-A-N-N-A-B-I-N-O-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Principal constituyente psicoactivo del cannabis que, en estado puro, es un sólido vítreo a bajas temperaturas que se torna viscoso y pegajoso al calentarlo. Es poco soluble en agua, pero se disuelve fácilmente en la mayoría de disolventes orgánicos, específicamente lípidos y alcoholes.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-E-T-R-A-H-I-D-R-O-C-A-N-N-A-B-I-N-O-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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