pez

[ˈpes]

/[ˈpes]/ noun

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The verdict

“pez” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,028) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#5,028
frequency rank, Spanish
6,028
“P” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cualquiera de unas 30 000 especies de animales vertebrados, caracterizados por ser los únicos adaptados a respirar agua durante todo su ciclo vital. Forman un grupo sin rigor taxonómico que compren...

Corpus desk

Index ES-pez · pez · Spanish

pez · rank #5,028 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,028
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,028
  • PHOTO-FINISH pelotas

Nearest frequency peer: pelotas (-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.

Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “pez”

Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo

corpus weight

What this shows Las barras sitúan “pez” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pez vs PP
0% similar
pez vs pm
33% similar
pez vs po
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pez
PropertyValue
Headwordpez
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈpes]
Letters3
Frequency rank#5,028
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pez”

De izquierda a derecha: las pocas palabras que cargan el habla diaria, luego la cola larga casi invisible.pezcae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

El eje es logarítmico: cada tick marca unas diez veces menos frecuencia. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “pelotas” (#5,027), “po” (#5,029), “pasaje” (#5,026). Entre 6,028 lemas con “P”, “pez” va en #5,028. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for pez is neighbouring look-alikes ("PP", "pm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈpes]. Frequency #5,028 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Cualquiera de unas 30 000 especies de animales vertebrados, caracterizados por ser los únicos adaptados a respirar agua durante todo su ciclo vital. Forman un grupo sin rigor taxonómico que compren...".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pez, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PP", "pm", "po", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is pez, spelled P-E-Z.

Definition

  1. 1
    Cualquiera de unas 30 000 especies de animales vertebrados, caracterizados por ser los únicos adaptados a respirar agua durante todo su ciclo vital. Forman un grupo sin rigor taxonómico que comprende varios grupos evolutivos diferentes, que sólo tienen en común su adaptación al medio acuático.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how pez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. No he pescado un solo pez en dos días.

This word in other languages

fish(English)poisson(Français)Fisch(Deutsch)peixe(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pez"?
"pez" is spelled P-E-Z. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpes].
What does "pez" mean?
As a noun, "pez" means: Cualquiera de unas 30 000 especies de animales vertebrados, caracterizados por ser los únicos adaptados a respirar agua durante todo su ciclo vital. Forman un grupo sin rigor taxonómico que compren...
What words are commonly confused with "pez"?
"pez" is commonly confused with "PP", "pm", "po". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pez"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pez" is [ˈpes]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pez" come from?
"pez" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pez", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

hey#5,007Eva#5,002com#4,982ADN#4,965

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list