pastiche
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#88,161
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
pastiche is aSpanishnoun. It means: Plagio o imitación que consiste en tomar determinadas características de la obra de un artista y combinarlas, de forma que den la impresión de ser una creación independiente. Pronounced [pasˈt̪it͡ʃe].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pastiche |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pasˈt̪it͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pastiche is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pasˈt̪it͡ʃe]. Corpus data places it at rank #88,161 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pastiche in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 pastiche, spelled P-A-S-T-I-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plagio o imitación que consiste en tomar determinadas características de la obra de un artista y combinarlas, de forma que den la impresión de ser una creación independiente.
- 2Etapa o condición del desarrollo humano basada en la imitación literal de un modelo.
Frequency rank: #88,161 in Spanish
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "pastiche"?
What does "pastiche" mean?
How do you pronounce "pastiche"?
What language does "pastiche" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Spanish index: