apoplejía
[apopleˈxia]
The verdict
“apoplejía” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #53,335 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #53,335
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Suspensión más o menos completa de las funciones cerebrales, ocasionada por una interrupción del suministro de sangre al cerebro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apoplejía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [apopleˈxia] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “apoplejía” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for apoplejía is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [apopleˈxia]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,335 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Suspensión más o menos completa de las funciones cerebrales, ocasionada por una interrupción del suministro de sangre al cerebro.".
No misspelling variants are generated for apoplejía in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is apoplejía, spelled A-P-O-P-L-E-J-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Suspensión más o menos completa de las funciones cerebrales, ocasionada por una interrupción del suministro de sangre al cerebro.
This word in other languages
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 “apoplejía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-P-O-P-L-E-J-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [apopleˈxia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.