progeria
[pɾoˈxeɾja]
The verdict
“progeria” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Envejecimiento infantil acelerado que, entre otras características, se manifiesta por baja estatura, gran cabeza, canicie y calvicie prematuras, piel seca y arrugada, rigidez articular y carencia d...
Corpus desk
Index ES-progeria · progeria · Spanish
progeria · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | progeria |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɾoˈxeɾja] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “progeria” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
progeria is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [pɾoˈxeɾja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Envejecimiento infantil acelerado que, entre otras características, se manifiesta por baja estatura, gran cabeza, canicie y calvicie prematuras, piel seca y arrugada, rigidez articular y carencia d...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for progeria, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is progeria, spelled P-R-O-G-E-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1Envejecimiento infantil acelerado que, entre otras características, se manifiesta por baja estatura, gran cabeza, canicie y calvicie prematuras, piel seca y arrugada, rigidez articular y carencia de cejas, pestañas y grasa subcutánea.
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