penalista
[penaˈlist̪a]
The verdict
“penalista” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,534 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,534
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Experto en derecho, acreditado con título universitario, que presta asistencia técnica jurídica en materia de derecho penal aconsejando o defendiendo a alguna de las partes en un juicio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-penalista · penalista · Spanish
penalista · rank #62,534 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,534
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pelícano
Nearest frequency peer: pelícano (-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 “penalista”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- patrol
patrol
37,473 corpus weight
- pausada
pausada
37,472 corpus weight
- pautado
pautado
37,471 corpus weight
- pelícano
pelícano
37,468 corpus weight
- penalista
penalista
37,467 corpus weight
- pesticida
pesticida
37,464 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “penalista” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penalista |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [penaˈlist̪a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “penalista” en español
Rare enough to double-check
penalista is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,534 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [penaˈlist̪a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for penalista in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is penalista, spelled P-E-N-A-L-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Experto en derecho, acreditado con título universitario, que presta asistencia técnica jurídica en materia de derecho penal aconsejando o defendiendo a alguna de las partes en un juicio.
- 2Jurista dedicado al estudio del derecho penal.
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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