eclampsia

//eclɐ̃pˈsiɐ// noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#92,752

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

eclampsia is aPortuguesenoun. It means: afecção grave que ocorre geralmente no final da gravidez, caracterizada por convulsões associadas à hipertensão arterial Pronounced /eclɐ̃pˈsiɐ/.

Key facts for eclampsia
PropertyValue
Headwordeclampsia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/eclɐ̃pˈsiɐ/
Letters9
Frequency rank#92,752
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of eclampsia in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for eclampsia is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /eclɐ̃pˈsiɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #92,752 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "afecção grave que ocorre geralmente no final da gravidez, caracterizada por convulsões associadas à hipertensão arterial".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for eclampsia in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Portuguese form is eclampsia, spelled E-C-L-A-M-P-S-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    afecção grave que ocorre geralmente no final da gravidez, caracterizada por convulsões associadas à hipertensão arterial

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #92,752 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "eclampsia"?
"eclampsia" is spelled E-C-L-A-M-P-S-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /eclɐ̃pˈsiɐ/.
What does "eclampsia" mean?
As a noun, "eclampsia" means: afecção grave que ocorre geralmente no final da gravidez, caracterizada por convulsões associadas à hipertensão arterial
How do you pronounce "eclampsia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "eclampsia" is /eclɐ̃pˈsiɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "eclampsia" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.