osteoporosis

/[ost̪eopoˈɾosis]/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#50,446

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

osteoporosis is aSpanishnoun. It means: Rarefacción del tejido óseo que se observa en la personas mayores. Descalcificación de los huesos. Pronounced [ost̪eopoˈɾosis].

Key facts for osteoporosis
PropertyValue
Headwordosteoporosis
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ost̪eopoˈɾosis]
Letters12
Frequency rank#50,446
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of osteoporosis in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for osteoporosis is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ost̪eopoˈɾosis]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,446 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Rarefacción del tejido óseo que se observa en la personas mayores. Descalcificación de los huesos.".

No misspelling variants are generated for osteoporosis in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 osteoporosis, spelled O-S-T-E-O-P-O-R-O-S-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rarefacción del tejido óseo que se observa en la personas mayores. Descalcificación de los huesos.

Frequency rank: #50,446 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "osteoporosis"?
"osteoporosis" is spelled O-S-T-E-O-P-O-R-O-S-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ost̪eopoˈɾosis].
What does "osteoporosis" mean?
As a noun, "osteoporosis" means: Rarefacción del tejido óseo que se observa en la personas mayores. Descalcificación de los huesos.
How do you pronounce "osteoporosis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "osteoporosis" is [ost̪eopoˈɾosis]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "osteoporosis" come from?
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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.