paw
/pɔː/
The verdict
“paw” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #86,067 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,067
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zarpa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-paw · paw · Spanish
paw · rank #86,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,067
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH participaremos
Nearest frequency peer: participaremos (-2 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 “paw”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- parasitolog…
parasitología
13,940 corpus weight
- parodiar
parodiar
13,938 corpus weight
- Parot
Parot
13,937 corpus weight
- participare…
participaremos
13,936 corpus weight
- paw
paw
13,934 corpus weight
- pegándose
pegándose
13,929 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “paw” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paw |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɔː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #86,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “paw” en español
Rare enough to double-check
paw is uncommon Spanish at frequency #86,067 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɔː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for paw in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is paw, spelled P-A-W.
Definition
- 1Zarpa.
- 2Parte inferior de la pata de un animal.
- 3Papá.
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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