pejerrey
[pexeˈrej]
The verdict
“pejerrey” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,271 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,271
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pez marino. Por ejemplo, Odontesthes bonariensis.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pejerrey · pejerrey · Spanish
pejerrey · rank #92,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,271
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pellizcar
Nearest frequency peer: pellizcar (+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 “pejerrey”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- patalear
patalear
7,738 corpus weight
- patients
patients
7,737 corpus weight
- Pecos
Pecos
7,732 corpus weight
- pejerrey
pejerrey
7,730 corpus weight
- pellizcar
pellizcar
7,729 corpus weight
- pericardio
pericardio
7,721 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pejerrey” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pejerrey |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pexeˈrej] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pejerrey” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pejerrey is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,271 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pexeˈrej]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pez marino. Por ejemplo, Odontesthes bonariensis.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pejerrey, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct Spanish form is pejerrey, spelled P-E-J-E-R-R-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Pez marino. Por ejemplo, Odontesthes bonariensis.
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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