pernicioso
[peɾniˈsjoso]
The verdict
“pernicioso” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #69,675 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,675
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gravemente nocivo y perjudicial.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pernicioso · pernicioso · Spanish
pernicioso · rank #69,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,675
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH Perugia
Nearest frequency peer: Perugia (+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 “pernicioso”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- peritoneal
peritoneal
30,329 corpus weight
- permanecier…
permanecieran
30,328 corpus weight
- pernicioso
pernicioso
30,326 corpus weight
- Perugia
Perugia
30,325 corpus weight
- pesaje
pesaje
30,324 corpus weight
- petty
petty
30,323 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pernicioso” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pernicioso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [peɾniˈsjoso] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pernicioso” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pernicioso is uncommon Spanish at frequency #69,675 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [peɾniˈsjoso]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gravemente nocivo y perjudicial.".
pernicioso has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 pernicioso, spelled P-E-R-N-I-C-I-O-S-O.
Definition
- 1Gravemente nocivo y perjudicial.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pernicioso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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This word in other languages
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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