peineta
[pejˈnet̪a]
The verdict
“peineta” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #64,074 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,074
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Antiguo peine grande convexo que usaban las mujeres como adorno en el siglo 19.
Corpus desk
Index ES-peineta · peineta · Spanish
peineta · rank #64,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,074
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH penco
Nearest frequency peer: penco (+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 “peineta”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Paulette
Paulette
35,931 corpus weight
- pecan
pecan
35,929 corpus weight
- peineta
peineta
35,927 corpus weight
- penco
penco
35,926 corpus weight
- penetrantes
penetrantes
35,925 corpus weight
- perchas
perchas
35,923 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “peineta” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peineta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pejˈnet̪a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “peineta” en español
Rare enough to double-check
peineta is uncommon Spanish at frequency #64,074 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pejˈnet̪a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
peineta doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is peineta, spelled P-E-I-N-E-T-A.
Definition
- 1Antiguo peine grande convexo que usaban las mujeres como adorno en el siglo 19.
- 2Peine que es más corto y convexo, usado para los tocados femeninos.
- 3Pliegue acolchado posterior de la silla de montar.
- 4Gesto usado como insulto en donde se levanta el dedo medio manteniendo cerrado el resto del puño.
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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