peli
[ˈpeli]
The verdict
“peli” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,341) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,341
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Película, habitualmente un largometraje de ficción.
Corpus desk
Index ES-peli · peli · Spanish
peli · rank #9,341 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,341
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH patatas
Nearest frequency peer: patatas (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “peli”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- pantallas
pantallas
90,663 corpus weight
- partiendo
partiendo
90,662 corpus weight
- patatas
patatas
90,661 corpus weight
- peli
peli
90,660 corpus weight
- perdonar
perdonar
90,658 corpus weight
- permanentes
permanentes
90,657 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “peli” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peli |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpeli] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “peli”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for peli is neighbouring look-alikes ("pi", "Per", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈpeli]. Frequency #9,341 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Película, habitualmente un largometraje de ficción.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for peli, with forms such as "epli", "pelli", and "plei". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pi", "Per", "pri", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is peli, spelled P-E-L-I.
Definition
- 1Película, habitualmente un largometraje de ficción.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epli
- pelli
- plei
- ppeli
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of peli - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "peli", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).