pasta
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,275
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pasta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Material sólido, blando y maleable, elaborado a partir de ingredientes pulverulentos y líquidos. Pronounced [ˈpast̪a]. It ranks #4,275 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pat and puta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pasta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpast̪a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pasta is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpast̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,275 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 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 pasta, with forms such as "apsta", "pasat", and "passta". 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, "pat", "puta", "post", 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 pasta, spelled P-A-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Material sólido, blando y maleable, elaborado a partir de ingredientes pulverulentos y líquidos.
- 2En particular, el que se hace de harina de cereal para elaborar alimentos.
- 3Manjar hecho de este material, relleno o cubierto de dulce.
- 4Alimento elaborado a base de trigo candeal (Triticum durum), originario de Italia, el cual generalmente se cuece en agua salada hirviendo y se sirve con algún tipo de salsa. En algunos casos se puede preparar al horno (gratinado).
- 5Masa de papel o trapo deshechos que se emplea para la elaboración de cartón.
- 6Cartón obtenido de la pasta₅, usado típicamente para las tapas de libros.
- 7Figuradamente, carácter propio e idiosincrático de algo o alguien.
- 8Bien que se usa para el pago de otros bienes y servicios y como unidad de medida de la riqueza.
- 9Conjunto de bienes que alguien posee, en especial los líquidos.
- 10Calma y lentitud excesivas en el habla y la acción.
- 11Ración de droga recreativa.
- 12Pulpa de frutas o verduras de consistencia muy blanda aunque no líquida.
- 13Droga de bajo costo que es un producto intermedio en la producción del clorhidrato de cocaína. Tiene el aspecto de un polvo con un color que varía entre el blanco sucio y el marrón. Está compuesto de cocaína base, ecgonina, benzoilecgonina, tropacocaína, cinamoilcocaína, sulfatos y carbonatos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apsta,pasat,passta,pastta,patsa,ppasta,psata
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pasta
Misspelling Variants of "pasta"
Frequency rank: #4,275 in Spanish
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