piscina
/pɪˈsiːnə/
"piscina" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“piscina” is uncommon English (frequency #89,768 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,768
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A drained basin near a church's altar for the disposal of water from liturgical ablutions.
Corpus desk
Index EN-piscina · piscina · English
piscina · rank #89,768 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,768
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pion
Nearest frequency peer: pion (-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 “piscina”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Pinheiro
Pinheiro
10,236 corpus weight
- pinko
pinko
10,235 corpus weight
- pion
pion
10,234 corpus weight
- piscina
piscina
10,233 corpus weight
- piti
piti
10,232 corpus weight
- Piyush
Piyush
10,230 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “piscina” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piscina |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɪˈsiːnə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “piscina” in English
Rare enough to double-check
piscina is uncommon English at frequency #89,768 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɪˈsiːnə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for piscina, 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 Latin piscīna (“fishpond; swimming pool”), from piscis (“fish”). Compare Middle English piscyne (“pool, pond”), from the same Latin word. The correct English form is piscina, spelled P-I-S-C-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1A drained basin near a church's altar for the disposal of water from liturgical ablutions.
- 2A basin or tank, especially one for holding fishes or for growing aquatic plants.
Etymology
From Latin piscīna (“fishpond; swimming pool”), from piscis (“fish”). Compare Middle English piscyne (“pool, pond”), from the same Latin word.
Synonyms
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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