pairo
[ˈpajɾo]
The verdict
“pairo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #98,771 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,771
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción de pairar la nave; Una de las especies de capa que pueden hacerse cuando se navega de bolina con viento bonancible y todo aparejo, si se quiere detener el curso del bajel por poco tiempo, pa...
Corpus desk
Index ES-pairo · pairo · Spanish
pairo · rank #98,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,771
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH paisajísticos
Nearest frequency peer: paisajísticos (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “pairo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- outer
outer
1,235 corpus weight
- oxicodona
oxicodona
1,233 corpus weight
- pairo
pairo
1,230 corpus weight
- paisajístic…
paisajísticos
1,229 corpus weight
- pancreática
pancreática
1,227 corpus weight
- parlanchín
parlanchín
1,225 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pairo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pairo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpajɾo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pairo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pairo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #98,771 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpajɾo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acción de pairar la nave; Una de las especies de capa que pueden hacerse cuando se navega de bolina con viento bonancible y todo aparejo, si se quiere detener el curso del bajel por poco tiempo, pa...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pairo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is pairo, spelled P-A-I-R-O.
Definition
- 1Acción de pairar la nave; Una de las especies de capa que pueden hacerse cuando se navega de bolina con viento bonancible y todo aparejo, si se quiere detener el curso del bajel por poco tiempo, para esperar algún buque o por cualquier otro motivo: consiste en bracear las gavias y demás vergas superiores por barlovento, de suerte que beban viento por la cara de proa; arriar un poco las escotas mayores y colocar progresivamente la caña del timón a sotavento.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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