pilla
[ˈpiʝa]
The verdict
“pilla” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,541) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,541
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de pillar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pilla · pilla · Spanish
pilla · rank #23,541 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,541
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pit
Nearest frequency peer: pit (+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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “pilla”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- permanecien…
permaneciendo
76,463 corpus weight
- personaliza…
personalizada
76,462 corpus weight
- pilla
pilla
76,460 corpus weight
- pit
pit
76,459 corpus weight
- pita
pita
76,458 corpus weight
- placentero
placentero
76,457 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “pilla” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | pilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈpiʝa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pilla”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pilla is neighbouring look-alikes ("piña", "pisa", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈpiʝa]. Frequency #23,541 among 6,028 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for pilla, with forms such as "iplla", "pilal", and "plila". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "piña", "pisa", "pipa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is pilla, spelled P-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de pillar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de pillar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iplla
- pilal
- plila
- ppilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pilla - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pilla", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).