piedra pómez
[ˈpjeð̞ɾa ˈpomes]
The verdict
“piedra pómez” 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) - Piedra ígnea volcánica, con densidad menor a la del agua, muy porosa, de color blanco gris y textura fibrosa, se emplea para desgastar o pulir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piedra pómez |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈpjeð̞ɾa ˈpomes] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “piedra pómez” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for piedra pómez is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpjeð̞ɾa ˈpomes]. 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: "Piedra ígnea volcánica, con densidad menor a la del agua, muy porosa, de color blanco gris y textura fibrosa, se emplea para desgastar o pulir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for piedra pómez 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 piedra pómez, spelled P-I-E-D-R-A- -P-Ó-M-E-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Piedra ígnea volcánica, con densidad menor a la del agua, muy porosa, de color blanco gris y textura fibrosa, se emplea para desgastar o pulir.
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Using “piedra pómez”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-I-E-D-R-A- -P-Ó-M-E-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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