microcefalia

Rare enough to double-check

microcefalia is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [mikɾoseˈfalja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Afección en la cual la cabeza de una persona es considerablemente más pequeña de lo normal para su edad y sexo".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for microcefalia, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is microcefalia, spelled M-I-C-R-O-C-E-F-A-L-I-A.