pulmonía

[pulmoˈnia]

/[pulmoˈnia]/ noun

The verdict

“pulmonía” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,331 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,331
frequency rank, Spanish
6,028
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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...

Corpus desk

Index ES-pulmonia · pulmonía · Spanish

pulmonía · rank #57,331 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,331
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,028
  • PHOTO-FINISH pujanza

Nearest frequency peer: pujanza (-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 “pulmonía”

Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pulmonía” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for pulmonía
PropertyValue
Headwordpulmonía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pulmoˈnia]
Letters8
Frequency rank#57,331
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cola larga: rango de “pulmonía” en español

De izquierda a derecha: las pocas palabras que cargan el habla diaria, luego la cola larga casi invisible.pulmoníacae en esta cola de rareza:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Los ticks avanzan en logaritmo; cada uno es del orden de diez veces más raro. Vecinos raros de la misma franja: “pujanza” (#57,330), “pulsión” (#57,332), “pudrirse” (#57,329). Entre 6,028 lemas con “P”, “pulmonía” va en #57,331. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pulmonía is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,331 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pulmoˈnia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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...".

pulmonía doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

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 pulmonía, spelled P-U-L-M-O-N-Í-A.

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

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.

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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pulmonía", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list