piensan

/[ˈpjẽnsãn]/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,128

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

17

similar word pairs

piensan is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de pensar. Pronounced [ˈpjẽnsãn]. It ranks #2,128 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pisan and pienso.

Key facts for piensan
PropertyValue
Headwordpiensan
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈpjẽnsãn]
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,128
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of piensan in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for piensan is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpjẽnsãn]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,128 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de pensar.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for piensan, with forms such as "ipensan", "peinsan", and "pienasn". 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, "pisan", "pienso", "prensa", 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 piensan, spelled P-I-E-N-S-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de pensar.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ipensan,peinsan,pienasn,piennsan,piensann,piensna,pienssan,piesnan,pinesan,ppiensan

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for piensan

Misspelling Variants of "piensan"

ipensan7peinsan7pienasn7piennsan8piensann8piensna7pienssan8piesnan7
Misspelling Variants of "piensan"

Frequency rank: #2,128 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "piensan"?
"piensan" is spelled P-I-E-N-S-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈpjẽnsãn].
What does "piensan" mean?
As a verb, "piensan" means: Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de pensar.
What words are commonly confused with "piensan"?
"piensan" is commonly confused with "pisan", "pienso", "prensa". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "piensan"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "piensan" is [ˈpjẽnsãn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "piensan" come from?
"piensan" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.