pilas
[ˈpilas]
The verdict
“pilas” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,210. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,210
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exhortación a estar alerta, a tener cuidado o a poner más energía en una actividad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pilas · pilas · Spanish
pilas · rank #7,210 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,210
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH permitiendo
Nearest frequency peer: permitiendo (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “pilas”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- pasear
pasear
92,795 corpus weight
- peligros
peligros
92,793 corpus weight
- permitiendo
permitiendo
92,792 corpus weight
- pilas
pilas
92,791 corpus weight
- plantilla
plantilla
92,790 corpus weight
- pondrá
pondrá
92,789 corpus weight
What this shows “pilas” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈpilas] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “pilas”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around pilas (IPA [ˈpilas]), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #7,210 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Exhortación a estar alerta, a tener cuidado o a poner más energía en una actividad.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for pilas, with forms such as "iplas", "pials", and "pilass". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pis", "plan", "play", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is pilas, spelled P-I-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1Exhortación a estar alerta, a tener cuidado o a poner más energía en una actividad.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pilas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fámel, todo arrechito, se quedó mirándolos y en tono autoritario nos dijo: —Pilas que yo les voy a arrebatar la pelota, se la tiro a ustedes y salgo corriendo.
viendo que ni las barras lograban mejorar el puntaje siempre adverso, se acercó a una de las participantes, una secretaria, y le dijo: «Pilas, que vamos perdiendo».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iplas
- pials
- pilass
- pilsa
- plias
- ppilas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pilas - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).