pelele
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,721
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
pelele is aSpanishnoun. It means: Figura humana de paja o trapos que suele ponerse en los balcones o que mantea el pueblo en las carnestolendas. Pronounced [peˈlele]. Often confused with peleo and plebe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelele |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peˈlele] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pelele is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peˈlele]. Corpus data places it at rank #46,721 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 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for pelele, with forms such as "eplele", "peelle", and "peleel". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "peleo", "plebe", "people", 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 pelele, spelled P-E-L-E-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Figura humana de paja o trapos que suele ponerse en los balcones o que mantea el pueblo en las carnestolendas.
- 2Persona simple o inútil.
- 3Prenda de punto de cuerpo entero que se pone a los bebés para estar en casa o para dormir.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eplele,peelle,peleel,pelelle,pellee,pellele,pleele,ppelele
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pelele
Misspelling Variants of "pelele"
Frequency rank: #46,721 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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