piel
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,389
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
piel is aSpanishnoun. It means: Órgano del sistema integumentario, compuesto por varias capas de tejido epitelial, que recubre casi todo el exterior del cuerpo de los animales vertebrados, aislándolo de los agentes patógenos exte... Pronounced [ˈpjel]. It ranks #1,389 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pío and Pol.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpjel] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for piel is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpjel]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,389 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 piel, with forms such as "ipel", "peil", and "piell". 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, "pío", "Pol", "pin", 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 piel, spelled P-I-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Órgano del sistema integumentario, compuesto por varias capas de tejido epitelial, que recubre casi todo el exterior del cuerpo de los animales vertebrados, aislándolo de los agentes patógenos externos y alojando los receptores para la sensación.
- 2Delgada capa exterior que forma el epicarpio en algunos frutos.
- 3Material de abrigo formado por el cuero de animales de denso pelaje, curtido de tal modo que este se conserve y luzca, empleado en prendas de invierno.
- 4Cuero curtido para su uso en marroquinería o indumentaria.
- 5Química (cohesión o entendimiento con otras personas).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipel,peil,piell,pile,ppiel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for piel
Misspelling Variants of "piel"
Frequency rank: #1,389 in Spanish
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