perra pelada
[ˈpera peˈlað̞a]
The verdict
“perra pelada” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Insecto de la familia Calotermítidos (Kalotermitidae) que vive en el centro y sur de Chile, dentro de los troncos de los árboles, alimentándose de madera. Sus colonias están organizadas en un siste...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perra pelada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpera peˈlað̞a] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “perra pelada” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for perra pelada is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpera peˈlað̞a]. 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: "Insecto de la familia Calotermítidos (Kalotermitidae) que vive en el centro y sur de Chile, dentro de los troncos de los árboles, alimentándose de madera. Sus colonias están organizadas en un siste...".
No misspelling variants are generated for perra pelada 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 perra pelada, spelled P-E-R-R-A- -P-E-L-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Insecto de la familia Calotermítidos (Kalotermitidae) que vive en el centro y sur de Chile, dentro de los troncos de los árboles, alimentándose de madera. Sus colonias están organizadas en un sistema de castas y los individuos con capacidad de reproducirse abandonan sus refugios para realizar el vuelo nupcial durante las noches calurosas del verano.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-E-R-R-A- -P-E-L-A-D-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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