piscina
/pɪˈsiːnə/
"piscina" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“piscina” is an uncommon English word, ranked #89,768 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #89,768
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A drained basin near a church's altar for the disposal of water from liturgical ablutions.
| 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) |
Where “piscina” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for piscina is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pɪˈsiːnə/. Corpus data places it at rank #89,768 in overall English 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.
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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Using “piscina”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-I-S-C-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.