pararrayos
[paɾaˈraʝos]
The verdict
“pararrayos” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,178 among 48,357 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,178
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,357
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instrumento cuyo objetivo es conducir la descarga eléctrica de un rayo hacia tierra, de modo tal que no cause daños a construcciones o personas. Este artilugio fue inventado en 1753 por Benjamín Fr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pararrayos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paɾaˈraʝos] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pararrayos” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pararrayos is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,178 among 48,357 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [paɾaˈraʝos]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrumento cuyo objetivo es conducir la descarga eléctrica de un rayo hacia tierra, de modo tal que no cause daños a construcciones o personas. Este artilugio fue inventado en 1753 por Benjamín Fr...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pararrayos, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is pararrayos, spelled P-A-R-A-R-R-A-Y-O-S.
Definition
- 1Instrumento cuyo objetivo es conducir la descarga eléctrica de un rayo hacia tierra, de modo tal que no cause daños a construcciones o personas. Este artilugio fue inventado en 1753 por Benjamín Franklin mientras efectuaba una serie de experimentos sobre la propiedad que tienen las puntas agudas conductoras de la electricidad, puestas en contacto con la tierra, de descargar los cuerpos electrizados situados en su proximidad.
This word in other languages
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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Using “pararrayos”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-R-A-R-R-A-Y-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [paɾaˈraʝos] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.