país
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#133
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
país is aSpanishnoun. It means: Comunidad humana numerosa, organizada en un territorio, para defender su interés común frente a otras comunidades del mismo tipo. Pronounced [paˈis]. It ranks #133 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pi and paz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | país |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈis] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for país is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈis]. Corpus data places it at rank #133 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for país, with forms such as "apís", "pasí", and "paíss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pi", "paz", "pie", 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 país, spelled P-A-Í-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Comunidad humana numerosa, organizada en un territorio, para defender su interés común frente a otras comunidades del mismo tipo.
- 2Territorio que, generalmente, coincide con el de un pueblo o nación.
- 3Región geográficamente delimitada, de poca o mucha extensión.
- 4Comunidad humana, y territorio, que forma un subconjunto dentro de otra mayor de la que forma parte, diferenciándose por lazos históricos o étnicos.
- 5Papel, piel o tela que cubre la parte superior del varillaje del abanico.
- 6Pintura o dibujo que representa cierta extensión de terreno.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apís,pasí,paíss,ppaís,pías
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for país
Misspelling Variants of "país"
Frequency rank: #133 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Spanish index: