pigmento
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,782
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
pigmento is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sustancia de color, generalmente en forma de polvo fino, que según el medio en que se encuentra disuelto posibilita las distintas técnicas pictóricas. Se distinguen según su naturaleza: los pigment... Pronounced [piɣ̞ˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Often confused with pimiento and pimentón.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pigmento |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piɣ̞ˈmẽn̪t̪o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pigmento is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piɣ̞ˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #37,782 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for pigmento, with forms such as "ipgmento", "pgimento", and "pigemnto". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "pimiento", "pimentón", "pigmentos", 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 pigmento, spelled P-I-G-M-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sustancia de color, generalmente en forma de polvo fino, que según el medio en que se encuentra disuelto posibilita las distintas técnicas pictóricas. Se distinguen según su naturaleza: los pigmentos metálicos, los pigmentos minerales, los orgánicos y los organometálicos.
- 2Materia colorante que, disuelta o en forma de gránulos, se encuentra en el protoplasma de muchas células vegetales y animales.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipgmento,pgimento,pigemnto,piggmento,pigmennto,pigmenot,pigmentto,pigmetno,pigmmento,pigmneto,pimgento,ppigmento
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pigmento
Misspelling Variants of "pigmento"
Frequency rank: #37,782 in Spanish
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