herpes zóster

/[ˈeɾpes ˈsost̪eɾ]/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

Spanish

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Misspellings

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herpes zóster is aSpanishnoun. It means: Afección dérmica provocada por el virus de la varicela, que provoca típicamente la aparición de ampollas o úlceras dolorosas sobre un dermatoma al afectar la vaina de mielina del nervio subyacente. Pronounced [ˈeɾpes ˈsost̪eɾ].

Key facts for herpes zóster
PropertyValue
Headwordherpes zóster
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈeɾpes ˈsost̪eɾ]
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for herpes zóster is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈeɾpes ˈsost̪eɾ]. 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: "Afección dérmica provocada por el virus de la varicela, que provoca típicamente la aparición de ampollas o úlceras dolorosas sobre un dermatoma al afectar la vaina de mielina del nervio subyacente.".

No misspelling variants are generated for herpes zóster 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 herpes zóster, spelled H-E-R-P-E-S- -Z-Ó-S-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Afección dérmica provocada por el virus de la varicela, que provoca típicamente la aparición de ampollas o úlceras dolorosas sobre un dermatoma al afectar la vaina de mielina del nervio subyacente.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "herpes zóster"?
"herpes zóster" is spelled H-E-R-P-E-S- -Z-Ó-S-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈeɾpes ˈsost̪eɾ].
What does "herpes zóster" mean?
As a noun, "herpes zóster" means: Afección dérmica provocada por el virus de la varicela, que provoca típicamente la aparición de ampollas o úlceras dolorosas sobre un dermatoma al afectar la vaina de mielina del nervio subyacente.
How do you pronounce "herpes zóster"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "herpes zóster" is [ˈeɾpes ˈsost̪eɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "herpes zóster" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.