ataxia
[aˈt̪aksja]
The verdict
“ataxia” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #74,268 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,268
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ausencia o iregularidad en la coordinación de los movimientos musculares producida por diversas causas. Es una reacción adversa a algunos medicamentos. También se puede manifestar por intoxicación ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-ataxia · ataxia · Spanish
ataxia · rank #74,268 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,268
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH Asturies
Nearest frequency peer: Asturies (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “ataxia”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- asintomátic…
asintomáticos
25,736 corpus weight
- asomado
asomado
25,735 corpus weight
- Asturies
Asturies
25,734 corpus weight
- ataxia
ataxia
25,733 corpus weight
- auditado
auditado
25,731 corpus weight
- autobiográf…
autobiográficos
25,730 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ataxia” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ataxia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈt̪aksja] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,268 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ataxia” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ataxia is uncommon Spanish at frequency #74,268 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [aˈt̪aksja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ausencia o iregularidad en la coordinación de los movimientos musculares producida por diversas causas. Es una reacción adversa a algunos medicamentos. También se puede manifestar por intoxicación ...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ataxia, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is ataxia, spelled A-T-A-X-I-A.
Definition
- 1Ausencia o iregularidad en la coordinación de los movimientos musculares producida por diversas causas. Es una reacción adversa a algunos medicamentos. También se puede manifestar por intoxicación por algunos compuestos químicos, como los hidrocarburos o el etilenglicol.
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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