mononucleosis
[mononukleˈosis]
The verdict
“mononucleosis” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #84,147 among 36,142 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,147
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Enfermedad infecciosa causada por el virus de Epstein Barr (VEB), que pertenece a la misma familia del virus del herpes. Con mucha menos frecuencia puede ser causada por el citomegalovirus, y en un...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mononucleosis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mononukleˈosis] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #84,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mononucleosis” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mononucleosis is uncommon Spanish at frequency #84,147 among 36,142 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [mononukleˈosis]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enfermedad infecciosa causada por el virus de Epstein Barr (VEB), que pertenece a la misma familia del virus del herpes. Con mucha menos frecuencia puede ser causada por el citomegalovirus, y en un...".
Zero misspellings are on record for mononucleosis in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is mononucleosis, spelled M-O-N-O-N-U-C-L-E-O-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Enfermedad infecciosa causada por el virus de Epstein Barr (VEB), que pertenece a la misma familia del virus del herpes. Con mucha menos frecuencia puede ser causada por el citomegalovirus, y en un 1 % de los casos por Toxoplasma gondii.
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 “mononucleosis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-O-N-O-N-U-C-L-E-O-S-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [mononukleˈosis] (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.