neuralgia
[newˈɾalxja]
The verdict
“neuralgia” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,218 among 7,828 “N” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,218
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,828
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dolor que irradia por el camino que sigue un nervio específico y sus ramificaciones.Sus causas suelen ser una compresión del nervio, un traumatismo con reacción inflamatoria del nervio, irritación ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neuralgia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [newˈɾalxja] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “neuralgia” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
neuralgia is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,218 among 7,828 “N” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [newˈɾalxja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dolor que irradia por el camino que sigue un nervio específico y sus ramificaciones.Sus causas suelen ser una compresión del nervio, un traumatismo con reacción inflamatoria del nervio, irritación ...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for neuralgia in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is neuralgia, spelled N-E-U-R-A-L-G-I-A.
Definition
- 1Dolor que irradia por el camino que sigue un nervio específico y sus ramificaciones.Sus causas suelen ser una compresión del nervio, un traumatismo con reacción inflamatoria del nervio, irritación química y otras. El caso más común es la neuralgia del nervio ciático.
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 “neuralgia”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is N-E-U-R-A-L-G-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.