pileta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,451
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pileta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pieza cóncava y pequeña de piedra o material similar que se usaba en algunas casas para depositar agua bendita. Pronounced [piˈlet̪a]. Often confused with pita and plata.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pileta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈlet̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pileta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈlet̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,451 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for pileta, with forms such as "ipleta", "pielta", and "pileat". 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, "pita", "plata", "pista", 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 pileta, spelled P-I-L-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pieza cóncava y pequeña de piedra o material similar que se usaba en algunas casas para depositar agua bendita.
- 2Receptáculo fijo doméstico, de piedra o material similar, donde cae o se deposita el agua para diversos usos, especialmente en baños, cocinas y lavaderos.
- 3Lugar donde se deposita agua para dar de beber al ganado, como un estanque, un lago, un paraje de río, etc.
- 4Estanque construido con el propósito de nadar, bañarse o recrearse dentro del agua.
- 5Sitio en que se recogen las aguas dentro de las minas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipleta,pielta,pileat,piletta,pilleta,piltea,plieta,ppileta
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Misspelling Variants of "pileta"
Frequency rank: #15,451 in Spanish
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