partícula

Name: partícula, Spanish Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[paɾˈt̪ikula]

/[paɾˈt̪ikula]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“partícula” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,154. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,154
frequency rank, Spanish: 6,028
“P” headwords: 13
tracked misspellings: 4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuerpo muy pequeño

Corpus desk

Index ES-particula · partícula · Spanish

partícula · rank #20,154 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

FREQ-MID #20,154
LEN-LONG 9 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
VAR-HIGH 13 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,028
PHOTO-FINISH partidista

Nearest frequency peer: partidista (-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.

paros

79,850
participará

79,849
partidista

79,848
partícula

79,847
pass

79,846
patrocinador

79,845

What this shows “partícula” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

partícula vs partitura

67% similar

partícula vs particular

80% similar

partícula vs partículas

90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for partícula
Property	Value
Headword	partícula
Language	Spanish
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	[paɾˈt̪ikula]
Letters	9
Frequency rank	#20,154
Misspellings tracked	13
Confusable pairs	4
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “partícula”

La frecuencia va del puñado de palabras que usamos sin parar (izquierda) a la cola larga que apenas aparece (derecha).partículacae aquí:

#20,154

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Los ticks avanzan en logaritmo; cada uno es del orden de diez veces más raro. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “partidista” (#20,153), “pass” (#20,155), “participará” (#20,152). Entre 6,028 lemas con “P”, “partícula” va en #20,154. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around partícula (IPA [paɾˈt̪ikula]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,154 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for partícula, with forms such as "aprtícula", "parrtícula", and "partcíula". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "partitura", "particular", "partículas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is partícula, spelled P-A-R-T-Í-C-U-L-A.

Definition

1
Cuerpo muy pequeño
2
En particular, partícula₁ más pequeña en que puede dividirse una sustancia sin alterar sus propiedades físicas y químicas
3
Cuerpo cualquiera, considerado como carente de dimensiones a efectos de simplificar un cálculo o problema
4
Vocablo, normalmente invariable, que no pertenece a ninguna de las clases gramaticales estándar, especialmente aquella utilizada para marcar el caso gramatical o la estructura discursiva

Synonyms

masa puntualpartícula puntualpunto material

This word in other languages

particle(English)particule(Français)Partikel(Deutsch)partícula(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

aprtícula
parrtícula
partcíula
parttícula
partíccula
partíclua
partícual
partículla
partíucla
parítcula
patrícula
ppartícula
pratícula

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of partícula - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

Edit distance from "partícula"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "partícula"?

"partícula" is spelled P-A-R-T-Í-C-U-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [paɾˈt̪ikula].

What does "partícula" mean?

As a noun, "partícula" means: Cuerpo muy pequeño

What words are commonly confused with "partícula"?

"partícula" is commonly confused with "partitura", "particular", "partículas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "partícula"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "partícula" is [paɾˈt̪ikula]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "partícula" come from?

"partícula" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "partícula", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pegamento#20,157 ortodoxos#20,148 ocurriría#20,147 ocasionar#20,146

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

precisar13 variants obtengan13 variants obtendrá13 variants resúmenes13 variants