pilar
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,340
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pilar is aSpanishnoun. It means: Elemento arquitectónico vertical de soporte aislado y macizo ya sea de sección rectangular, cruciforme o estrellada, que se usa en la construcción para soportar una estructura. Pronounced [piˈlaɾ]. It ranks #5,340 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with plan and play.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pilar is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈlaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,340 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for pilar, with forms such as "iplar", "pialr", and "pilarr". 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, "plan", "play", "piña", 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 pilar, spelled P-I-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Elemento arquitectónico vertical de soporte aislado y macizo ya sea de sección rectangular, cruciforme o estrellada, que se usa en la construcción para soportar una estructura.
- 2Carteles que señalizan los caminos.
- 3Concepto o principio que es muy fundamental, elemental o más importante que el resto de cosas que forman parte de un conjunto.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iplar,pialr,pilarr,pilra,pliar,ppilar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pilar
Misspelling Variants of "pilar"
Frequency rank: #5,340 in Spanish
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