pulmonía

/[pulmoˈnia]/ noun

The verdict

“pulmonía” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #57,331 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.

#57,331
frequency rank, Spanish
8
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Inflamación severa de parte o de todo un pulmón, incluso de ambos pulmones, ocasionada por virus, bacterias o u micoplasma. La pulmonía viral es de menor gravedad y suele darse en niños. Más graves...

Key facts for pulmonía
PropertyValue
Headwordpulmonía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pulmoˈnia]
Letters8
Frequency rank#57,331
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pulmonía” sits in Spanish frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). pulmonía lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for pulmonía is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pulmoˈnia]. Corpus data places it at rank #57,331 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Inflamación severa de parte o de todo un pulmón, incluso de ambos pulmones, ocasionada por virus, bacterias o u micoplasma. La pulmonía viral es de menor gravedad y suele darse en niños. Más graves...".

No misspelling variants are generated for pulmonía 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 pulmonía, spelled P-U-L-M-O-N-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Inflamación severa de parte o de todo un pulmón, incluso de ambos pulmones, ocasionada por virus, bacterias o u micoplasma. La pulmonía viral es de menor gravedad y suele darse en niños. Más graves son las pulmonías bacterianas, que en los ancianos e inmunodeprimidos suelen ser una complicación de un resfrío, gripe u otra enfermedad pulmonar; el agente patógeno más característico es el Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #57,331 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pulmonía"?
"pulmonía" is spelled P-U-L-M-O-N-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [pulmoˈnia].
What does "pulmonía" mean?
As a noun, "pulmonía" means: Inflamación severa de parte o de todo un pulmón, incluso de ambos pulmones, ocasionada por virus, bacterias o u micoplasma. La pulmonía viral es de menor gravedad y suele darse en niños. Más graves...
How do you pronounce "pulmonía"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pulmonía" is [pulmoˈnia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pulmonía" come from?
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Using “pulmonía”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is P-U-L-M-O-N-Í-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [pulmoˈnia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.