picota
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,373
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
picota is aSpanishnoun. It means: Rollo o columna de piedra o de fábrica, que había a la entrada de algunos lugares, donde se exponían las cabezas de los ajusticiados, o los reos, a la vergüenza. Pronounced [piˈkot̪a]. Often confused with pita and pista.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | picota |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈkot̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for picota is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈkot̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #44,373 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for picota, with forms such as "ipcota", "pciota", and "piccota". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "pita", "pista", "pinta", 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 picota, spelled P-I-C-O-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rollo o columna de piedra o de fábrica, que había a la entrada de algunos lugares, donde se exponían las cabezas de los ajusticiados, o los reos, a la vergüenza.
- 2Juego de muchachos, en que cada jugador tira un palo puntiagudo para clavarlo en el suelo y derribar el del contrario.
- 3Parte superior, en punta, de una torre o montaña muy alta.
- 4Barra ahorquillada donde descansa el perno sobre el cual gira el guimbalete.
- 5Herramienta formada por una pieza de metal ahusada con un ojo en el centro, por donde se inserta un mango. Se usa para cavar o para romper ciertas clases de roca.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipcota,pciota,piccota,picoat,picotta,pictoa,piocta,ppicota
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "picota"
Frequency rank: #44,373 in Spanish
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