pierna
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,637
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pierna is aSpanishnoun. It means: Miembros inferiores del ser humano y posteriores de otros vertebrados terrestres, que se insertan en la cadera y se emplean para la locomoción. Pronounced [ˈpjeɾna]. It ranks #4,637 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with piña and pira.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pierna |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpjeɾna] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pierna is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpjeɾna]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,637 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 pierna, with forms such as "iperna", "peirna", and "pienra". 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, "piña", "pira", "pieza", 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 pierna, spelled P-I-E-R-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Miembros inferiores del ser humano y posteriores de otros vertebrados terrestres, que se insertan en la cadera y se emplean para la locomoción.
- 2Cada una de las piezas de apoyo de una entidad o instrumento.
- 3Trazo vertical en la composición de algunas letras.
- 4Juego de tres naipes iguales, en algunos juegos de cartas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iperna,peirna,pienra,pieran,piernna,pierrna,pirena,ppierna
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pierna
Misspelling Variants of "pierna"
Frequency rank: #4,637 in Spanish
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