pad
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,908
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pad is aSpanishnoun. It means: Periférico táctil presente en las notebooks y otros dispositivos portátiles que permite el movimiento de un cursor sobre una interfaz gráfica; funciona como alternativa al mouse. Pronounced [ˈpað̞]. Often confused with PP and pm.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pad |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpað̞] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pad is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpað̞]. Corpus data places it at rank #31,908 in overall Spanish 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 pad in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PP", "pm", "po", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 pad, spelled P-A-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Periférico táctil presente en las notebooks y otros dispositivos portátiles que permite el movimiento de un cursor sobre una interfaz gráfica; funciona como alternativa al mouse.
- 2En una placa de circuito impreso, terminación que se le da a la pista en forma de círculo, rectángulo, óvalo, gota o anillo y que sirve para soldar los terminales y pines de los componentes que se montan encima.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #31,908 in Spanish
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