pececillo de plata
The verdict
“pececillo de plata” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 18
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (Lepisma saccharinum) Especie cosmopolita de insecto nocturno tisanuro procedente de América. Es de color plateado, tiene patas muy cortas y antenas muy largas, cuerpo cilíndrico que se va estrecha...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pececillo de plata |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [peseˈsiʝo ð̞e ˈplat̪a] |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pececillo de plata” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pececillo de plata is 18 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peseˈsiʝo ð̞e ˈplat̪a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Lepisma saccharinum) Especie cosmopolita de insecto nocturno tisanuro procedente de América. Es de color plateado, tiene patas muy cortas y antenas muy largas, cuerpo cilíndrico que se va estrecha...".
No misspelling variants are generated for pececillo de plata in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 pececillo de plata, spelled P-E-C-E-C-I-L-L-O- -D-E- -P-L-A-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Lepisma saccharinum) Especie cosmopolita de insecto nocturno tisanuro procedente de América. Es de color plateado, tiene patas muy cortas y antenas muy largas, cuerpo cilíndrico que se va estrechando posteriormente hasta quedar rematado por tres prolongaciones articuladas. Se alimentan de muy variadas materias: cartón, papel, azúcar, almidón y cuero.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-C-E-C-I-L-L-O- -D-E- -P-L-A-T-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [peseˈsiʝo ð̞e ˈplat̪a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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