pia
[ˈpja]
The verdict
“pia” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,350) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,350
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Segunda persona del singular (vos) del imperativo afirmativo de piar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pia · pia · Spanish
pia · rank #27,350 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,350
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pertenecido
Nearest frequency peer: pertenecido (-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 “pia”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- periférica
periférica
72,654 corpus weight
- perjudican
perjudican
72,653 corpus weight
- pertenecido
pertenecido
72,652 corpus weight
- pia
pia
72,651 corpus weight
- piquete
piquete
72,650 corpus weight
- podáis
podáis
72,648 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “pia” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈpja] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pia”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pia is neighbouring look-alikes ("PP", "pm", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈpja]. Frequency #27,350 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Segunda persona del singular (vos) del imperativo afirmativo de piar.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pia, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PP", "pm", "po", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is pia, spelled P-I-A.
Definition
- 1Segunda persona del singular (vos) del imperativo afirmativo de piar.
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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