pellizco
[peˈʝisko]
The verdict
“pellizco” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,121 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,121
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de pellizcar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pellizco · pellizco · Spanish
pellizco · rank #51,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,121
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH penaliza
Nearest frequency peer: penaliza (+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 “pellizco”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pastelera
pastelera
48,884 corpus weight
- patriot
patriot
48,883 corpus weight
- pedagogos
pedagogos
48,882 corpus weight
- pellizco
pellizco
48,880 corpus weight
- penaliza
penaliza
48,879 corpus weight
- penitente
penitente
48,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pellizco” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pellizco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peˈʝisko] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pellizco” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pellizco is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,121 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [peˈʝisko]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pellizco in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is pellizco, spelled P-E-L-L-I-Z-C-O.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de pellizcar.
- 2Porción pequeña de una cosa, que se toma o se quita.
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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