afonía
Spanish, noun/afoˈnia/
afonía is spelled A-F-O-N-Í-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish, the 126,596th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Afonía is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “aphonia (loss of voice)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pérdida de la voz, en especial si es causada por un problema orgánico o funcional del aparato fonador”.
What does afonía mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineaphonia (loss of voice)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pérdida de la voz, en especial si es causada por un problema orgánico o funcional del aparato fonador.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of afonía
- afonías plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce afonía?
- /afoˈnia/
- [a.foˈni.a]
- [afoˈnia]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is afonía in Spanish?
afonía appears about once in every 11 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).