vitamina

/[bit̪aˈmina]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,818

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

vitamina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Compuesto orgánico heterogéneo que se encuentra en los animales en pequeñísimas cantidades, pero que son necesarios para el correcto funcionamiento orgánico. Actúan como coenzimas y grupos prostéti... Pronounced [bit̪aˈmina]. Often confused with vitrina and vitaminas.

Key facts for vitamina
PropertyValue
Headwordvitamina
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[bit̪aˈmina]
Letters8
Frequency rank#13,818
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of vitamina in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for vitamina is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bit̪aˈmina]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,818 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Compuesto orgánico heterogéneo que se encuentra en los animales en pequeñísimas cantidades, pero que son necesarios para el correcto funcionamiento orgánico. Actúan como coenzimas y grupos prostéti...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for vitamina, with forms such as "bitamina", "ivtamina", and "viatmina". 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, "vitrina", "vitaminas", 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 vitamina, spelled V-I-T-A-M-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Compuesto orgánico heterogéneo que se encuentra en los animales en pequeñísimas cantidades, pero que son necesarios para el correcto funcionamiento orgánico. Actúan como coenzimas y grupos prostéticos de las enzimas, recibiendo sus nombres distintivos mediante letras mayúsculas.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bitamina,ivtamina,viatmina,vitaimna,vitamian,vitaminna,vitammina,vitamnia,vitmaina,vittamina,vtiamina,vvitamina

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vitamina

Misspelling Variants of "vitamina"

bitamina8ivtamina8viatmina8vitaimna8vitamian8vitaminna9vitammina9vitamnia8
Misspelling Variants of "vitamina"

Frequency rank: #13,818 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vitamina"?
"vitamina" is spelled V-I-T-A-M-I-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [bit̪aˈmina].
What does "vitamina" mean?
As a noun, "vitamina" means: Compuesto orgánico heterogéneo que se encuentra en los animales en pequeñísimas cantidades, pero que son necesarios para el correcto funcionamiento orgánico. Actúan como coenzimas y grupos prostéti...
What words are commonly confused with "vitamina"?
"vitamina" is commonly confused with "vitrina", "vitaminas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vitamina"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vitamina" is [bit̪aˈmina]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vitamina" come from?
"vitamina" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.