papel
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#593
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
papel is aSpanishnoun. It means: Material poroso, elaborado a partir de la pulpa de las fibras de diversos vegetales, y utilizado como soporte para la grafía escrita o impresa. Pronounced [paˈpel]. It ranks #593 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pel and pase.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈpel] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for papel is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈpel]. Corpus data places it at rank #593 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for papel, with forms such as "appel", "paepl", and "papell". 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, "pel", "pase", "piel", 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 papel, spelled P-A-P-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Material poroso, elaborado a partir de la pulpa de las fibras de diversos vegetales, y utilizado como soporte para la grafía escrita o impresa.
- 2Hoja o trozo de este material.
- 3Impreso de menor extensión que un folleto o libro.
- 4Personaje de una obra representada por un actor.
- 5Por extensión, función que una persona o cosa cumple en algún respecto.
- 6Valor o título que se pone a cotización en el mercado financiero.
- 7Documento oficial que acredita alguna cosa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: appel,paepl,papell,paple,pappel,ppael,ppapel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for papel
Misspelling Variants of "papel"
Frequency rank: #593 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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