María del Pilar
[maˈɾia ð̞el piˈlaɾ]
The verdict
“María del Pilar” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Nombre de pila de mujer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | María del Pilar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [maˈɾia ð̞el piˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “María del Pilar” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for María del Pilar is 15 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈɾia ð̞el piˈlaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nombre de pila de mujer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for María del Pilar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 Spanish form is María del Pilar, spelled M-A-R-Í-A- -D-E-L- -P-I-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nombre de pila de mujer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “María del Pilar”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-R-Í-A- -D-E-L- -P-I-L-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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