hipocondria

//i.pɔ.kõ.ˈdɾi.ɐ// noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#89,181

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hipocondria is aPortuguesenoun. It means: estado psíquico que se caracteriza pela crença infundada de se padecer de uma doença grave Pronounced /i.pɔ.kõ.ˈdɾi.ɐ/.

Key facts for hipocondria
PropertyValue
Headwordhipocondria
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/i.pɔ.kõ.ˈdɾi.ɐ/
Letters11
Frequency rank#89,181
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for hipocondria is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /i.pɔ.kõ.ˈdɾi.ɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #89,181 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hipocondria 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 hipocondria, spelled H-I-P-O-C-O-N-D-R-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    estado psíquico que se caracteriza pela crença infundada de se padecer de uma doença grave
  2. 2
    tristeza profunda, melancolia

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #89,181 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hipocondria"?
"hipocondria" is spelled H-I-P-O-C-O-N-D-R-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is /i.pɔ.kõ.ˈdɾi.ɐ/.
What does "hipocondria" mean?
As a noun, "hipocondria" means: estado psíquico que se caracteriza pela crença infundada de se padecer de uma doença grave
How do you pronounce "hipocondria"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hipocondria" is /i.pɔ.kõ.ˈdɾi.ɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hipocondria" 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.