hemiplejia

/[emiˈplexja]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

hemiplejia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parálisis que afecta a una parte del cuerpo, (brazo, lado de la cara, etc) o más de una parte del cuerpo al mismo tiempo, debido a un daño en el hemisferio opuesto al lado del cuerpo afectado. La h... Pronounced [emiˈplexja].

Key facts for hemiplejia
PropertyValue
Headwordhemiplejia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[emiˈplexja]
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

hemiplejia 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 hemiplejia is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [emiˈplexja]. 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: "Parálisis que afecta a una parte del cuerpo, (brazo, lado de la cara, etc) o más de una parte del cuerpo al mismo tiempo, debido a un daño en el hemisferio opuesto al lado del cuerpo afectado. La h...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hemiplejia 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 hemiplejia, spelled H-E-M-I-P-L-E-J-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Parálisis que afecta a una parte del cuerpo, (brazo, lado de la cara, etc) o más de una parte del cuerpo al mismo tiempo, debido a un daño en el hemisferio opuesto al lado del cuerpo afectado. La hipertensión y la diabetes suelen conducir a accidentes vasculares con esta consecuencia; así como también las encefalitis, tumores y traumatismos.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hemiplejia"?
"hemiplejia" is spelled H-E-M-I-P-L-E-J-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [emiˈplexja].
What does "hemiplejia" mean?
As a noun, "hemiplejia" means: Parálisis que afecta a una parte del cuerpo, (brazo, lado de la cara, etc) o más de una parte del cuerpo al mismo tiempo, debido a un daño en el hemisferio opuesto al lado del cuerpo afectado. La h...
How do you pronounce "hemiplejia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hemiplejia" is [emiˈplexja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hemiplejia" 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.