perfil
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,616
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
perfil is aSpanishnoun. It means: Línea representativa del contorno de una figura y el mismo contorno. Pronounced [peɾˈfil]. It ranks #1,616 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Persia and perdí.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perfil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peɾˈfil] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for perfil is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾˈfil]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,616 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for perfil, with forms such as "eprfil", "pefril", and "perffil". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Persia", "perdí", "peral", 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 perfil, spelled P-E-R-F-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Línea representativa del contorno de una figura y el mismo contorno.
- 2Contorno del semblante de una persona visto de lado, y su delineación.
- 3Delineación lineal según la altura y latitud de un cuerpo.
- 4Cada una de las partes o líneas más delgadas de que se compone la letra.
- 5Cada una de las rayas delgadas que se hacen con la pluma llevada de canto, como ejercicio para aprender a escribir.
- 6Adorno sutil y delicado, especialmente el que se pone al canto o extremo de una cosa.
- 7Postura en que no se deja ver sino una sola de las dos mitades laterales del cuerpo.
- 8Figura que presenta un cuerpo cortado real o imaginariamente por un plano vertical.
- 9Figura o superficie que se obtiene de cortar transversalmente a una barra de acero, que, junto con el tipo de material, define sus propiedades mecánicas fundamentales.
- 10Barra de acero con un perfil₉ específico extruido.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eprfil,pefril,perffil,perfill,perfli,perifl,perrfil,pperfil,prefil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for perfil
Misspelling Variants of "perfil"
Frequency rank: #1,616 in Spanish
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