enfermedad de Lyme
[ẽɱfeɾmeˈð̞að̞ d̪e ˈlãjm]
The verdict
“enfermedad de Lyme” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Enfermedad infecciosa causada por algunas de las bacterias del género Borrelia, transmitida por garrapatas. La enfermedad puede afectar la piel, sistema nervioso, corazón, articulaciones y músculos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfermedad de Lyme |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽɱfeɾmeˈð̞að̞ d̪e ˈlãjm] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “enfermedad de Lyme” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for enfermedad de Lyme is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽɱfeɾmeˈð̞að̞ d̪e ˈlãjm]. 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: "Enfermedad infecciosa causada por algunas de las bacterias del género Borrelia, transmitida por garrapatas. La enfermedad puede afectar la piel, sistema nervioso, corazón, articulaciones y músculos.".
No misspelling variants are generated for enfermedad de Lyme 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 Lyme, spelled E-N-F-E-R-M-E-D-A-D- -D-E- -L-Y-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enfermedad infecciosa causada por algunas de las bacterias del género Borrelia, transmitida por garrapatas. La enfermedad puede afectar la piel, sistema nervioso, corazón, articulaciones y músculos.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-N-F-E-R-M-E-D-A-D- -D-E- -L-Y-M-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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