penna
[`pɛnːa]
The verdict
“penna” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,371 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,371
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluma, bolígrafo; lápiz; portaminas; lapicero. Instrumento de tinta o grafito que sirve para escribir o dibujar, especialmente sobre papel.
Corpus desk
Index ES-penna · penna · Spanish
penna · rank #80,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,371
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH percibirán
Nearest frequency peer: percibirán (+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 “penna”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- paupérrima
paupérrima
19,635 corpus weight
- peliagudo
peliagudo
19,632 corpus weight
- penna
penna
19,630 corpus weight
- percibirán
percibirán
19,629 corpus weight
- perforadora
perforadora
19,627 corpus weight
- perimetrales
perimetrales
19,626 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “penna” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penna |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [`pɛnːa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “penna” en español
Rare enough to double-check
penna is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,371 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [`pɛnːa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluma, bolígrafo; lápiz; portaminas; lapicero. Instrumento de tinta o grafito que sirve para escribir o dibujar, especialmente sobre papel.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for penna, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is penna, spelled P-E-N-N-A.
Definition
- 1Pluma, bolígrafo; lápiz; portaminas; lapicero. Instrumento de tinta o grafito que sirve para escribir o dibujar, especialmente sobre papel.
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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