rubéola
[ruˈβ̞eola]
The verdict
“rubéola” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #97,839 among 48,955 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,839
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,955
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Enfermedad víral (causado por un virus del genero Rubivirus de la familia Togaviridae) de poca gravedad (generalmente afecta a los niños). Sólo al ser contraída por la madre durante el embarazo, su...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rubéola |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ruˈβ̞eola] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rubéola” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rubéola is uncommon Spanish at frequency #97,839 among 48,955 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ruˈβ̞eola]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enfermedad víral (causado por un virus del genero Rubivirus de la familia Togaviridae) de poca gravedad (generalmente afecta a los niños). Sólo al ser contraída por la madre durante el embarazo, su...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rubéola, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is rubéola, spelled R-U-B-É-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1Enfermedad víral (causado por un virus del genero Rubivirus de la familia Togaviridae) de poca gravedad (generalmente afecta a los niños). Sólo al ser contraída por la madre durante el embarazo, supone una grave amenaza para el feto; con abortos espontáneos en el 20% de los casos. Se caracteriza por una erupción en la piel, la inflamación de las glándulas y, especialmente en los adultos, dolores en las articulaciones. Por lo general la erupción en la piel dura unos tres días y puede presentarse acompañada de una ligera fiebre. Hasta la mitad de las personas afectadas no presenta ningún síntoma en absoluto.
This word in other languages
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 “rubéola”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-U-B-É-O-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ruˈβ̞eola] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.