pesa
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,938
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pesa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pieza empleada en la balanza como patrón de medida para pesar objetos. Pronounced [ˈpesa]. It ranks #6,938 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pez and pis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pesa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpesa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pesa is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpesa]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,938 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pesa, with forms such as "epsa", "peas", and "pessa". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pez", "pis", "pet", 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 pesa, spelled P-E-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pieza empleada en la balanza como patrón de medida para pesar objetos.
- 2Objeto pesado que cuelga al extremo de una cuerda como contrapeso o para accionar un mecanismo.
- 3Objeto largo compuesto por dos discos pesados unidos a los extremos de una barra metálica o sujetos a un cable que es utilizado en halterofilia, en ejercicios que requieren levantar el objeto con ambos brazos.
- 4Mancuerna (objeto de barra pequeña con pesos en los extremos usado en ejercitación muscular).
- 5Por extensión, cualquiera de los discos empleados en halterofilia o en gimnasia de aparatos.
- 6Establecimiento donde se vende carne.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epsa,peas,pessa,ppesa,psea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pesa
Misspelling Variants of "pesa"
Frequency rank: #6,938 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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