narcolepsia
[naɾkoˈlepsja]
The verdict
“narcolepsia” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #87,032 among 1,151 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,032
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trastorno del sueño caracterizado por la presencia de accesos de somnolencia irresistible durante el día.
Corpus desk
Index ES-narcolepsia · narcolepsia · Spanish
narcolepsia · rank #87,032 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,032
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Nahual
Nearest frequency peer: Nahual (-3 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “narcolepsia”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- mut
mut
12,975 corpus weight
- márchate
márchate
12,973 corpus weight
- Nahual
Nahual
12,972 corpus weight
- narcolepsia
narcolepsia
12,969 corpus weight
- necesitéis
necesitéis
12,966 corpus weight
- neurólogos
neurólogos
12,963 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “narcolepsia” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | narcolepsia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [naɾkoˈlepsja] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #87,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “narcolepsia” en español
Rare enough to double-check
narcolepsia is uncommon Spanish at frequency #87,032 among 1,151 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [naɾkoˈlepsja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Trastorno del sueño caracterizado por la presencia de accesos de somnolencia irresistible durante el día.".
narcolepsia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is narcolepsia, spelled N-A-R-C-O-L-E-P-S-I-A.
Definition
- 1Trastorno del sueño caracterizado por la presencia de accesos de somnolencia irresistible durante el día.
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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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