pifia
[ˈpifja]
The verdict
“pifia” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #68,010 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,010
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de pifiar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pifia · pifia · Spanish
pifia · rank #68,010 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,010
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH petiso
Nearest frequency peer: petiso (-1 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “pifia”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pertenecerá
pertenecerá
31,994 corpus weight
- petes
petes
31,993 corpus weight
- petiso
petiso
31,992 corpus weight
- pifia
pifia
31,991 corpus weight
- plagadas
plagadas
31,990 corpus weight
- planeador
planeador
31,989 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pifia” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pifia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈpifja] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pifia” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pifia is uncommon Spanish at frequency #68,010 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈpifja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pifia in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is pifia, spelled P-I-F-I-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de pifiar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de pifiar.
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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