pellizcar
[peʝisˈkaɾ]
The verdict
“pellizcar” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,272 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,272
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Asir con el dedo pulgar y cualquiera de los otros una pequeña porción de piel y carne, apretándola de suerte que cause dolor.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pellizcar · pellizcar · Spanish
pellizcar · rank #92,272 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,272
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pejerrey
Nearest frequency peer: pejerrey (-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 “pellizcar”
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 “pellizcar” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pellizcar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [peʝisˈkaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pellizcar” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pellizcar is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,272 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [peʝisˈkaɾ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pellizcar in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is pellizcar, spelled P-E-L-L-I-Z-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Asir con el dedo pulgar y cualquiera de los otros una pequeña porción de piel y carne, apretándola de suerte que cause dolor.
- 2Tocar con dos dedos las cuerdas de un instrumento para que suenen.
- 3Tomar o quitar pequeña cantidad de una cosa.
- 4Causarle a alguien un daño insignificante.
Synonyms
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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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