pararrayos
[paɾaˈraʝos]
The verdict
“pararrayos” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,178 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,178
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index ES-pararrayos · pararrayos · Spanish
pararrayos · rank #67,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,178
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pariendo
Nearest frequency peer: pariendo (+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 “pararrayos”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pacte
pacte
32,827 corpus weight
- papiloma
papiloma
32,825 corpus weight
- pararrayos
pararrayos
32,823 corpus weight
- pariendo
pariendo
32,822 corpus weight
- parroquianos
parroquianos
32,821 corpus weight
- participaré
participaré
32,820 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pararrayos” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “pararrayos” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pararrayos is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,178 among 6,028 “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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