decrepitud

/[d̪ekɾepiˈt̪uð̞]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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decrepitud is aSpanishnoun. It means: Condición del anciano que está mental y físicamente muy deteriorado. Pronounced [d̪ekɾepiˈt̪uð̞].

Key facts for decrepitud
PropertyValue
Headworddecrepitud
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[d̪ekɾepiˈt̪uð̞]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

decrepitud is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for decrepitud is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪ekɾepiˈt̪uð̞]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for decrepitud 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 decrepitud, spelled D-E-C-R-E-P-I-T-U-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Condición del anciano que está mental y físicamente muy deteriorado.
  2. 2
    Estado de deterioro extremo de las cosas, que por su edad ya se acaban.
  3. 3
    Estado de suma vejez.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "decrepitud"?
"decrepitud" is spelled D-E-C-R-E-P-I-T-U-D. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪ekɾepiˈt̪uð̞].
What does "decrepitud" mean?
As a noun, "decrepitud" means: Condición del anciano que está mental y físicamente muy deteriorado.
How do you pronounce "decrepitud"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "decrepitud" is [d̪ekɾepiˈt̪uð̞]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "decrepitud" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.