osteoporosis
[ost̪eopoˈɾosis]
The verdict
“osteoporosis” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,446 among 1,467 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,446
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rarefacción del tejido óseo que se observa en la personas mayores. Descalcificación de los huesos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-osteoporosis · osteoporosis · Spanish
osteoporosis · rank #50,446 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,446
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH Osetia
Nearest frequency peer: Osetia (-1 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 “osteoporosis”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- orfebrería
orfebrería
49,558 corpus weight
- originando
originando
49,557 corpus weight
- Osetia
Osetia
49,556 corpus weight
- osteoporosis
osteoporosis
49,555 corpus weight
- ouija
ouija
49,554 corpus weight
- ovulación
ovulación
49,553 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “osteoporosis” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | osteoporosis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ost̪eopoˈɾosis] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #50,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “osteoporosis” en español
Rare enough to double-check
osteoporosis is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,446 among 1,467 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ost̪eopoˈɾosis]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rarefacción del tejido óseo que se observa en la personas mayores. Descalcificación de los huesos.".
Zero misspellings are on record for osteoporosis in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is osteoporosis, spelled O-S-T-E-O-P-O-R-O-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1Rarefacción del tejido óseo que se observa en la personas mayores. Descalcificación de los huesos.
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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