pleuresía

[plewɾeˈsia]

/[plewɾeˈsia]/ noun

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The verdict

“pleuresía” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Inflamación de la pleura

Corpus desk

Index ES-pleuresia · pleuresía · Spanish

pleuresía · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "P" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for pleuresía
PropertyValue
Headwordpleuresía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[plewɾeˈsia]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pleuresía” sits in Spanish frequency

pleuresía falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pleuresía is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [plewɾeˈsia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflamación de la pleura".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pleuresía, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is pleuresía, spelled P-L-E-U-R-E-S-Í-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Inflamación de la pleura

Synonyms

pleuritis

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pleuresía"?
"pleuresía" is spelled P-L-E-U-R-E-S-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [plewɾeˈsia].
What does "pleuresía" mean?
As a noun, "pleuresía" means: Inflamación de la pleura
How do you pronounce "pleuresía"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pleuresía" is [plewɾeˈsia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pleuresía" 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list