palilalia

/[paliˈlalja]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

palilalia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Trastorno del lenguaje hablado que consiste en la repetición espontánea e involuntaria de sílabas o de palabras. Se trata de un tic complejo, como la ecolalia y la coprolalia. Todos estos trastorno... Pronounced [paliˈlalja].

Key facts for palilalia
PropertyValue
Headwordpalilalia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[paliˈlalja]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

palilalia is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for palilalia is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paliˈlalja]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Trastorno del lenguaje hablado que consiste en la repetición espontánea e involuntaria de sílabas o de palabras. Se trata de un tic complejo, como la ecolalia y la coprolalia. Todos estos trastorno...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for palilalia in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 palilalia, spelled P-A-L-I-L-A-L-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Trastorno del lenguaje hablado que consiste en la repetición espontánea e involuntaria de sílabas o de palabras. Se trata de un tic complejo, como la ecolalia y la coprolalia. Todos estos trastornos pueden ser síntomas de síndrome de Tourette, enfermedad de Parkinson, Alzheimer, síndrome de Asperger o autismo.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "palilalia"?
"palilalia" is spelled P-A-L-I-L-A-L-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [paliˈlalja].
What does "palilalia" mean?
As a noun, "palilalia" means: Trastorno del lenguaje hablado que consiste en la repetición espontánea e involuntaria de sílabas o de palabras. Se trata de un tic complejo, como la ecolalia y la coprolalia. Todos estos trastorno...
How do you pronounce "palilalia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "palilalia" is [paliˈlalja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "palilalia" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.