delirium tremens
The verdict
“delirium tremens” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Trastornos durante la abstinencia alcohólica que se caracterizan por cambios repentinos y graves en el sistema mental o nervioso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | delirium tremens |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [d̪eliˈɾjũm t̪ɾeˈmẽns] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “delirium tremens” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for delirium tremens is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪eliˈɾjũm t̪ɾeˈmẽns]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Trastornos durante la abstinencia alcohólica que se caracterizan por cambios repentinos y graves en el sistema mental o nervioso.".
No misspelling variants are generated for delirium tremens in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 delirium tremens, spelled D-E-L-I-R-I-U-M- -T-R-E-M-E-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Trastornos durante la abstinencia alcohólica que se caracterizan por cambios repentinos y graves en el sistema mental o nervioso.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is D-E-L-I-R-I-U-M- -T-R-E-M-E-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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