pegajoso
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,252
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
pegajoso is anSpanishadj. It means: Que pega o se pega mucho, más de lo controlable. Pronounced [peɣ̞aˈxoso]. Often confused with pegamos and pegados.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pegajoso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [peɣ̞aˈxoso] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pegajoso is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɣ̞aˈxoso]. Corpus data places it at rank #37,252 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for pegajoso, with forms such as "epgajoso", "peagjoso", and "pegajjoso". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pegamos", "pegados", "pegajosa", 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 pegajoso, spelled P-E-G-A-J-O-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que pega o se pega mucho, más de lo controlable.
- 2Que se contagia con facilidad, dicho de una idea o una melodía.
- 3Dicho de una persona, que está muy encima de los demás y deja poco espacio personal.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epgajoso,peagjoso,pegajjoso,pegajoos,pegajosso,pegajsoo,pegaojso,peggajoso,pegjaoso,pgeajoso,ppegajoso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pegajoso
Misspelling Variants of "pegajoso"
Frequency rank: #37,252 in Spanish
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