pigmeo
[piɣ̞ˈmeo]
The verdict
“pigmeo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #75,754 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,754
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pigmeo · pigmeo · Spanish
pigmeo · rank #75,754 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,754
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pinacoteca
Nearest frequency peer: pinacoteca (+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 “pigmeo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pescadito
pescadito
24,250 corpus weight
- pescaron
pescaron
24,249 corpus weight
- pigmeo
pigmeo
24,247 corpus weight
- pinacoteca
pinacoteca
24,246 corpus weight
- pinchan
pinchan
24,245 corpus weight
- piquen
piquen
24,243 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pigmeo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “pigmeo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pigmeo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #75,754 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [piɣ̞ˈmeo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pigmeo in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is pigmeo, spelled P-I-G-M-E-O.
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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