eclampsia

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for eclampsia is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, 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".

eclampsia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is eclampsia, spelled E-C-L-A-M-P-S-I-A.