pedantería
[peð̞ãn̪t̪eˈɾia]
The verdict
“pedantería” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #85,149 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,149
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alarde vanidoso de conocimientos o erudición, real o falsa, fuera de un contexto social adecuado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pedanteria · pedantería · Spanish
pedantería · rank #85,149 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,149
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH PCUS
Nearest frequency peer: PCUS (-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 “pedantería”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- patón
patón
14,857 corpus weight
- pause
pause
14,856 corpus weight
- pavoroso
pavoroso
14,855 corpus weight
- PCUS
PCUS
14,853 corpus weight
- pedantería
pedantería
14,852 corpus weight
- pedregosa
pedregosa
14,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pedantería” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pedantería |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peð̞ãn̪t̪eˈɾia] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pedantería” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pedantería is uncommon Spanish at frequency #85,149 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [peð̞ãn̪t̪eˈɾia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pedantería, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is pedantería, spelled P-E-D-A-N-T-E-R-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Alarde vanidoso de conocimientos o erudición, real o falsa, fuera de un contexto social adecuado.
- 2Lo que se dice o hace, en este vanidoso alarde de erudición real o falsa.
This word in other languages
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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