hiporexia
[ipoˈɾeksja]
The verdict
“hiporexia” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disminución persistente del apetito.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hiporexia · hiporexia · Spanish
hiporexia · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hiporexia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ipoˈɾeksja] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “hiporexia” en español
Rare enough to double-check
hiporexia is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ipoˈɾeksja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Disminución persistente del apetito.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hiporexia in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is hiporexia, spelled H-I-P-O-R-E-X-I-A.
Definition
- 1Disminución persistente del apetito.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hiporexia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La hiporexia no es otra cosa que la pérdida parcial del apetito, diferenciándose de la anorexia que es la pérdida total. Cuando un niño o un adulto disminuyen la ingesta de alimentos por varios días, no uno o dos, decimos que tiene hiporexia. Esta puede estar determinada por una enfermedad que se encuentra en curso, o por alguna otra situación.
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.