pinta
/ˈpaɪnt.ə/
"pinta" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pinta” is uncommon English (frequency #88,714 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,714
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pint of milk.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pinta · pinta · English
pinta · rank #88,714 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,714
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pilfer
Nearest frequency peer: pilfer (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “pinta”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- photoelectr…
photoelectron
11,290 corpus weight
- pilfer
pilfer
11,288 corpus weight
- pinta
pinta
11,287 corpus weight
- plagioclase
plagioclase
11,286 corpus weight
- plasticine
plasticine
11,285 corpus weight
- Platon
Platon
11,284 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pinta” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pinta |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpaɪnt.ə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pinta” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pinta is uncommon English at frequency #88,714 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpaɪnt.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A pint of milk.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pinta, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the pronunciation of pint of milk. Compare cuppa. The correct English form is pinta, spelled P-I-N-T-A.
Definition
- 1A pint of milk.
Etymology
From the pronunciation of pint of milk. Compare cuppa.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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