leucemia

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for leucemia is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [lewˈsemja]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,299 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Cáncer en la sangre, es un grupo de enfermedades malignas de la médula ósea (cáncer hematológico ) que provoca un aumento incontrolado de leucocitos (glóbulos blancos) clonales en la médula ósea.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for leucemia, with forms such as "elucemia", "lecuemia", and "leuccemia". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "lencería", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 leucemia, spelled L-E-U-C-E-M-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.