pier
[ˈpiːɛr]
The verdict
“pier” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,876) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,876
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mutación dura del sustantivo masculino bier ('cerveza').
Corpus desk
Index ES-pier · pier · Spanish
pier · rank #38,876 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,876
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pinceles
Nearest frequency peer: pinceles (+2 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 “pier”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- persiga
persiga
61,129 corpus weight
- petrolíferos
petrolíferos
61,128 corpus weight
- pier
pier
61,125 corpus weight
- pinceles
pinceles
61,123 corpus weight
- pine
pine
61,122 corpus weight
- PNG
PNG
61,120 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “pier” 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 | pier |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpiːɛr] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pier”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pier is neighbouring look-alikes ("por", "pío", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈpiːɛr]. Frequency #38,876 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Mutación dura del sustantivo masculino bier ('cerveza').".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for pier, with forms such as "iper", "peir", and "pierr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "por", "pío", "pin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is pier, spelled P-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mutación dura del sustantivo masculino bier ('cerveza').
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iper
- peir
- pierr
- pire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pier - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).