pela
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,782
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pela is aSpanishnoun. It means: Paliza (sucesión de golpes). Pronounced [ˈpela]. Often confused with Per and pez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpela] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #21,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pela is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpela]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,782 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pela, with forms such as "epla", "peal", and "pella". 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 pela, spelled P-E-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Paliza (sucesión de golpes).
- 2Azotes dados con un cinturón.
- 3Ritual que se hace en los cumpleaños de varones, en donde se hace una ronda alrededor del cumpleañero y se lo golpea en la cabeza con las palmas de las manos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epla,peal,pella,plea,ppela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pela
Misspelling Variants of "pela"
Frequency rank: #21,782 in Spanish
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