ventrículo
The verdict
“ventrículo” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #45,072 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #45,072
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Cavidad inferior del corazón de los mamíferos, aves y reptiles, que recibe la sangre de la aurícula y la impulsa fuera del corazón. En el hombre y demás mamíferos está en número par, separados ambo...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ventrículo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bẽn̪ˈt̪ɾikulo] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #45,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ventrículo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ventrículo is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bẽn̪ˈt̪ɾikulo]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,072 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for ventrículo, with forms such as "bentrículo", "evntrículo", and "venntrículo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ventricular", 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 ventrículo, spelled V-E-N-T-R-Í-C-U-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cavidad inferior del corazón de los mamíferos, aves y reptiles, que recibe la sangre de la aurícula y la impulsa fuera del corazón. En el hombre y demás mamíferos está en número par, separados ambos ventrículos por un septo, el ventrículo derecho lleva la sangre venosa hacia los pulmones, en tanto que el ventrículo izquierdo, de mayor tamaño, impulsa la sangre arterial por la aorta hacia el resto del cuerpo.
- 2Cada una de las cuatro cavidades que contiene el líquido cefalorraquídeo en el encéfalo de los vertebrados.
- 3Órgano del sistema digestivo, con forma de bolsa o engrosamiento, que recibe el bolo alimenticio proveniente del esófago.
- 4Nombre dado a otras varias cavidades del cuerpo, como por ejemplo, las dos cavidades en la zona de la glotis, entre las cuerdas vocales.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bentrículo,evntrículo,venntrículo,venrtículo,ventrcíulo,ventrrículo,ventrícculo,ventrícluo,ventrícullo,ventrícuol,ventríuclo,venttrículo,ventírculo,vetnrículo,vnetrículo,vventrículo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ventrículo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "ventrículo"
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 “ventrículo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-E-N-T-R-Í-C-U-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [bẽn̪ˈt̪ɾikulo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ventricular” - see the side-by-side comparison. ventrículo vs ventricular
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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