pigmeo
[piɣ̞ˈmeo]
The verdict
“pigmeo” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #75,754 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #75,754
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Relativo a cierto pueblo fabuloso y de cada uno de sus individuos, los cuales, según la antigua poesía griega, no tenían más de un codo de alto, si bien eran muy belicosos y hábiles flecheros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pigmeo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [piɣ̞ˈmeo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pigmeo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pigmeo is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piɣ̞ˈmeo]. Corpus data places it at rank #75,754 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for pigmeo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 pigmeo, spelled P-I-G-M-E-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Relativo a cierto pueblo fabuloso y de cada uno de sus individuos, los cuales, según la antigua poesía griega, no tenían más de un codo de alto, si bien eran muy belicosos y hábiles flecheros.
- 2Relativo a una serie de grupos cazadores-recolectores que viven en la región ecuatorial de África y en grupos aislados en Borneo y Nueva Guinea, que se caracterizan por su baja estatura.
- 3Muy pequeño. Se aplica a personas.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-I-G-M-E-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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