pelusa
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,210
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
pelusa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pelo muy delgado y suave que recubre algunos vegetales y en especial la piel de las frutas. Pronounced [peˈlusa]. Often confused with plus and pesa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelusa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peˈlusa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pelusa is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peˈlusa]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,210 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 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 pelusa, with forms such as "eplusa", "pellusa", and "pelsua". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "plus", "pesa", "pluma", 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 pelusa, spelled P-E-L-U-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pelo muy delgado y suave que recubre algunos vegetales y en especial la piel de las frutas.
- 2Pelo muy delgado y suave que se desprende de ciertas telas.
- 3Pelo muy delgado y suave que cubre algunas partes de la piel de las personas.
- 4Suciedad que se acumula bajo los muebles en forma de pequeñas aglomeraciones de filamentos con polvo.
- 5Envidia o celo infantil.
- 6Niño de las clases pobres que vaga por las calles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eplusa,pellusa,pelsua,peluas,pelussa,peulsa,pleusa,ppelusa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pelusa
Misspelling Variants of "pelusa"
Frequency rank: #36,210 in Spanish
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