meningitis
[menĩŋˈxit̪is]
The verdict
“meningitis” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #34,215. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,215
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Inflamación de las meninges, membranas que envuelven y protegen al sistema nervioso central. Su origen puede ser viral o bacteriano. Las meningitis bacteriales son muy peligrosas y pueden llegar a ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meningitis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [menĩŋˈxit̪is] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “meningitis” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around meningitis (IPA [menĩŋˈxit̪is]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,215 among 36,142 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Inflamación de las meninges, membranas que envuelven y protegen al sistema nervioso central. Su origen puede ser viral o bacteriano. Las meningitis bacteriales son muy peligrosas y pueden llegar a ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for meningitis, with forms such as "emningitis", "meinngitis", and "menignitis". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is meningitis, spelled M-E-N-I-N-G-I-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1Inflamación de las meninges, membranas que envuelven y protegen al sistema nervioso central. Su origen puede ser viral o bacteriano. Las meningitis bacteriales son muy peligrosas y pueden llegar a ser mortales.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emningitis,meinngitis,menignitis,meninggitis,meningiits,meningitiss,meningitsi,meningittis,meningtiis,meninigtis,meninngitis,mennigitis,menningitis,mmeningitis,mneingitis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meningitis - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “meningitis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-E-N-I-N-G-I-T-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [menĩŋˈxit̪is] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.