pergamal
[peɾɣ̞aˈmal]
The verdict
“pergamal” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hoja de papel de pergamino que forma la cara posterior de los diafragmas y que tiene por objeto evitar que la percusión de los tipos de las máquinas de escribir, al actuar sobre el clisé para produ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pergamal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peɾɣ̞aˈmal] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pergamal” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pergamal is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [peɾɣ̞aˈmal]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Hoja de papel de pergamino que forma la cara posterior de los diafragmas y que tiene por objeto evitar que la percusión de los tipos de las máquinas de escribir, al actuar sobre el clisé para produ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for pergamal in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 pergamal, spelled P-E-R-G-A-M-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hoja de papel de pergamino que forma la cara posterior de los diafragmas y que tiene por objeto evitar que la percusión de los tipos de las máquinas de escribir, al actuar sobre el clisé para producir la escritura, destruya éste haciendo imposible su utilización o empleo en la multiplicación de ejemplares por los procedimientos poligráficos.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “pergamal”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-R-G-A-M-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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