pelvis
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,557
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
pelvis is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cavidad del cuerpo humano, en la parte inferior del tronco, y en cuya formación entran los huesos sacro, cóccix e innominados, y las partes blandas. Contiene la terminación del tubo digestivo, la v... Pronounced [ˈpelβ̞is]. Often confused with polis and polvos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelvis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpelβ̞is] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pelvis is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpelβ̞is]. Corpus data places it at rank #26,557 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for pelvis, with forms such as "eplvis", "pelbis", and "pelivs". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "polis", "polvos", "peli", 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 pelvis, spelled P-E-L-V-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cavidad del cuerpo humano, en la parte inferior del tronco, y en cuya formación entran los huesos sacro, cóccix e innominados, y las partes blandas. Contiene la terminación del tubo digestivo, la vejiga urinaria y algunos órganos, correspondientes al aparato genital, principalmente en la mujer.
- 2Receptáculo membranoso, en forma de embudo, que se halla en el interior de cada riñón y es el principio del uréter.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eplvis,pelbis,pelivs,pellvis,pelviss,pelvsi,pelvvis,pevlis,plevis,ppelvis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pelvis
Misspelling Variants of "pelvis"
Frequency rank: #26,557 in Spanish
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "pelvis"?
What does "pelvis" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "pelvis"?
How do you pronounce "pelvis"?
What language does "pelvis" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Spanish index: