megalomanía

/[meɣ̞alomaˈnia]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#85,988

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

megalomanía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Trastorno mental, o estado mórbido de la psique, caracterizado por fantasías de omnipotencia. Pronounced [meɣ̞alomaˈnia].

Key facts for megalomanía
PropertyValue
Headwordmegalomanía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[meɣ̞alomaˈnia]
Letters11
Frequency rank#85,988
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of megalomanía in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for megalomanía is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meɣ̞alomaˈnia]. Corpus data places it at rank #85,988 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for megalomanía 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 megalomanía, spelled M-E-G-A-L-O-M-A-N-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Trastorno mental, o estado mórbido de la psique, caracterizado por fantasías de omnipotencia.
  2. 2
    Manía o delirio de grandezas.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #85,988 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "megalomanía"?
"megalomanía" is spelled M-E-G-A-L-O-M-A-N-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [meɣ̞alomaˈnia].
What does "megalomanía" mean?
As a noun, "megalomanía" means: Trastorno mental, o estado mórbido de la psique, caracterizado por fantasías de omnipotencia.
How do you pronounce "megalomanía"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "megalomanía" is [meɣ̞alomaˈnia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "megalomanía" 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.