papus
[ˈpapus]
The verdict
“papus” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #87,076 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,076
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conjunto de pelos simples o plumosos, cerdas o escamas que rodean a las diminutas flores que corona en frutos con ovario ínfero, generalmente de las asteráceas o compuestas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-papus · papus · Spanish
papus · rank #87,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,076
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH panóptico
Nearest frequency peer: panóptico (-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 “papus”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- palabrota
palabrota
12,928 corpus weight
- palla
palla
12,927 corpus weight
- panóptico
panóptico
12,926 corpus weight
- papus
papus
12,925 corpus weight
- pasquines
pasquines
12,921 corpus weight
- pateamos
pateamos
12,919 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “papus” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papus |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpapus] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “papus” en español
Rare enough to double-check
papus is uncommon Spanish at frequency #87,076 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpapus]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Conjunto de pelos simples o plumosos, cerdas o escamas que rodean a las diminutas flores que corona en frutos con ovario ínfero, generalmente de las asteráceas o compuestas.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for papus, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is papus, spelled P-A-P-U-S.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de pelos simples o plumosos, cerdas o escamas que rodean a las diminutas flores que corona en frutos con ovario ínfero, generalmente de las asteráceas o compuestas.
Synonyms
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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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