enfermedad de Alzheimer
[ẽɱfeɾmeˈð̞að̞ d̪e alsˈxejmeɾ]
The verdict
“enfermedad de Alzheimer” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Trastorno degenerativo irreversible de la memoria, por la pérdida de las neuronas cerebrales, debido a una acumulación de la proteína amiloide. Su causa primaria es desconocida. La enfermedad condu...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfermedad de Alzheimer |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽɱfeɾmeˈð̞að̞ d̪e alsˈxejmeɾ] |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “enfermedad de Alzheimer” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for enfermedad de Alzheimer is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽɱfeɾmeˈð̞að̞ d̪e alsˈxejmeɾ]. 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: "Trastorno degenerativo irreversible de la memoria, por la pérdida de las neuronas cerebrales, debido a una acumulación de la proteína amiloide. Su causa primaria es desconocida. La enfermedad condu...".
No misspelling variants are generated for enfermedad de Alzheimer 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 enfermedad de Alzheimer, spelled E-N-F-E-R-M-E-D-A-D- -D-E- -A-L-Z-H-E-I-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Trastorno degenerativo irreversible de la memoria, por la pérdida de las neuronas cerebrales, debido a una acumulación de la proteína amiloide. Su causa primaria es desconocida. La enfermedad conduce a la muerte por el deterioro progresivo de las funciones motoras del cerebro.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-N-F-E-R-M-E-D-A-D- -D-E- -A-L-Z-H-E-I-M-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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