cifosis
[siˈfosis]
The verdict
“cifosis” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Encorvadura defectuosa de la espina dorsal, de convexidad posterior.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cifosis · cifosis · Spanish
cifosis · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cifosis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siˈfosis] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cifosis” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cifosis is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [siˈfosis]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Encorvadura defectuosa de la espina dorsal, de convexidad posterior.".
No misspelling variants are generated for cifosis in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is cifosis, spelled C-I-F-O-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Encorvadura defectuosa de la espina dorsal, de convexidad posterior.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cifosis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«En forma crónica pueden observarse lumbalgias, dorsalgias y condromalacia rotuliana. En cuanto a las secuelas podemos encontrar cifosis rígida provocada por la posición forzada del ciclista sobre su bicicleta y la enfermedad de Ledderhose que presenta pie cavo provocado por microtraumatismos repetidos del pie, que ocasionan una retracción de la aponeuros…
«La pérdida de altura puede indicar fractura vertebral por compresión, lo que se observa en muchos pacientes sin traumatismos ni otros precipitantes agudos. La cifosis dorsal con lordosis lumbar exagerada («joroba de viuda») puede deberse a múltiples fracturas por compresión. En algunos pacientes con fracturas, el dolor puede ser agudo e intenso, y ceder…
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