perno
[ˈpeɾno]
The verdict
“perno” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,446 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,446
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pieza metálica de unión con cabeza y terminación plana, que pasa por perforaciones que permiten unir y fijar cosas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-perno · perno · Spanish
perno · rank #52,446 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,446
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH personifica
Nearest frequency peer: personifica (+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 “perno”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- perfilar
perfilar
47,559 corpus weight
- pericial
pericial
47,557 corpus weight
- perno
perno
47,555 corpus weight
- personifica
personifica
47,554 corpus weight
- pertrechos
pertrechos
47,553 corpus weight
- pesaban
pesaban
47,551 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “perno” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perno |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpeɾno] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “perno” en español
Rare enough to double-check
perno is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,446 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpeɾno]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pieza metálica de unión con cabeza y terminación plana, que pasa por perforaciones que permiten unir y fijar cosas.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for perno, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 perno, spelled P-E-R-N-O.
Definition
- 1Pieza metálica de unión con cabeza y terminación plana, que pasa por perforaciones que permiten unir y fijar cosas.
Synonyms
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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