neumonía
The verdict
“neumonía” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #20,436 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #20,436
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Inflamación severa de parte o de todo un pulmón, incluso de ambos pulmones, ocasionada por virus, bacterias o u micoplasma. La neumonía viral es de menor gravedad y suele darse en niños. Más graves...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neumonía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [newmoˈnia] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “neumonía” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for neumonía is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [newmoˈnia]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,436 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Inflamación severa de parte o de todo un pulmón, incluso de ambos pulmones, ocasionada por virus, bacterias o u micoplasma. La neumonía viral es de menor gravedad y suele darse en niños. Más graves...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for neumonía, with forms such as "enumonía", "nemuonía", and "neummonía". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "neurona", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 neumonía, spelled N-E-U-M-O-N-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Inflamación severa de parte o de todo un pulmón, incluso de ambos pulmones, ocasionada por virus, bacterias o u micoplasma. La neumonía viral es de menor gravedad y suele darse en niños. Más graves son las neumonías bacterianas, que en los ancianos e inmunodeprimidos suelen ser una complicación de un resfrío, gripe u otra enfermedad pulmonar; el agente patógeno más característico es el Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enumonía,nemuonía,neummonía,neumnoía,neumonaí,neumonnía,neumoína,neuomnía,nneumonía,nuemonía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of neumonía — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "neumonía"
Frequency rank: #20,436 in Spanish
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Using “neumonía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is N-E-U-M-O-N-Í-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [newmoˈnia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “neurona” — see the side-by-side comparison. neumonía vs neurona
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
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