pastún
[pasˈt̪ũn]
The verdict
“pastún” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #91,217 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,217
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perteneciente o relativo los pastunes (etnia de linaje segmentario que se concentra en Afganistán y Pakistán, con 40 millones de miembros) o a su cultura.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pastun · pastún · Spanish
pastún · rank #91,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,217
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pastan
Nearest frequency peer: pastan (-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 “pastún”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- parvulario
parvulario
8,788 corpus weight
- pasmados
pasmados
8,786 corpus weight
- pastan
pastan
8,785 corpus weight
- pastún
pastún
8,784 corpus weight
- patinetas
patinetas
8,782 corpus weight
- pecamos
pecamos
8,780 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pastún” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pastún |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pasˈt̪ũn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pastún” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pastún is uncommon Spanish at frequency #91,217 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [pasˈt̪ũn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Perteneciente o relativo los pastunes (etnia de linaje segmentario que se concentra en Afganistán y Pakistán, con 40 millones de miembros) o a su cultura.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pastún, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 pastún, spelled P-A-S-T-Ú-N.
Definition
- 1Perteneciente o relativo los pastunes (etnia de linaje segmentario que se concentra en Afganistán y Pakistán, con 40 millones de miembros) o a su cultura.
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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