pulmonía
[pulmoˈnia]
The verdict
“pulmonía” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #57,331 among 48,357 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,331
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,357
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pulmonía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pulmoˈnia] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pulmonía” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pulmonía is uncommon Spanish at frequency #57,331 among 48,357 “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
- 1Inflamación 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.
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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.