xantofila
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9 characters
Language
Spanish
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xantofila is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pigmento de color amarillo pardo , que se encuentra en las hojas de los vegetales, y que ocasiona los tonos amarillo rojizos de algunos árboles de hoja caduca en otoño. Secretado por los dinoflagel... Pronounced [sãn̪t̪oˈfila].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | xantofila |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sãn̪t̪oˈfila] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for xantofila is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sãn̪t̪oˈfila]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for xantofila in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 xantofila, spelled X-A-N-T-O-F-I-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pigmento de color amarillo pardo , que se encuentra en las hojas de los vegetales, y que ocasiona los tonos amarillo rojizos de algunos árboles de hoja caduca en otoño. Secretado por los dinoflagelados causa la coloración de la marea roja.
- 2Sustancia química análoga a la clorofila, que participa en la síntesis en los cloroplastos.
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