pillaba
[piˈʝaβ̞a]
The verdict
“pillaba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #96,649 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,649
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de pillar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pillaba · pillaba · Spanish
pillaba · rank #96,649 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,649
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pini
Nearest frequency peer: pini (+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 “pillaba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pillaba
pillaba
3,352 corpus weight
- pini
pini
3,351 corpus weight
- piras
piras
3,349 corpus weight
- piru
piru
3,348 corpus weight
- pirómano
pirómano
3,347 corpus weight
- pisaste
pisaste
3,346 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pillaba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pillaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [piˈʝaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pillaba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pillaba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #96,649 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [piˈʝaβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pillaba, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is pillaba, spelled P-I-L-L-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de pillar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de pillar.
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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