pega
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,143
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pega is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción de pegar o conglutinar una cosa con otra. Pronounced [ˈpeɣ̞a]. It ranks #5,143 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Per and pez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pega |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpeɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pega is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpeɣ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,143 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pega, with forms such as "epga", "peag", and "pegga". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Per", "pez", "pen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 pega, spelled P-E-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción de pegar o conglutinar una cosa con otra.
- 2Baño que se da con la pez a los vasos o vasijas; como son tinajas, ollas, cántaros, pellejos, etc.
- 3Pez marino del orden de los acantopterigios, de unos cuarenta centímetros de largo y de siete a nueve en su mayor diámetro; fusiforme, de color ceniciento, con una aleta dorsal y otra ventral que nacen en la mitad del cuerpo y se prolongan hasta la cola, y encima de la cabeza un disco oval, formado por una serie de láminas cartilaginosas movibles, con el cual hace el vacío para adherirse fuertemente a los objetos flotantes. Los antiguos le atribuían la propiedad de detener las naves.
- 4Burla o engaño que se hace a uno por entretenimiento y diversión. Dícese más comúnmente de los que se dan en carnaval.
- 5Entre estudiantes, pregunta difícil de contestar en exámenes.
- 6Castigo que se da a uno, especialmente de azotes o golpes.
- 7Acción de pegar fuego a un barreno.
- 8Obstáculo o contratiempo.
- 9Empleo, ocupación en un trabajo remunerado.
- 10Pegamento, substancia utilizada para unir cosas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epga,peag,pegga,pgea,ppega
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pega
Misspelling Variants of "pega"
Frequency rank: #5,143 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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