pillar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,042
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pillar is aSpanishverb. It means: Tomar o coger para sí lo que es propiedad de otros. Pronounced [piˈʝaɾ]. Often confused with polla and piola.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pillar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [piˈʝaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pillar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈʝaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,042 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 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 pillar, with forms such as "ipllar", "pilalr", and "pillarr". 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, "polla", "piola", "polar", 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 pillar, spelled P-I-L-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tomar o coger para sí lo que es propiedad de otros.
- 2Descubrir o sorprender a personas o animales cometiendo un acto ilícito, secreto o delictivo.
- 3Asir, sujetar, agarrar o aprehender una cosa, animal o persona, especialmente después de perseguirlos.
- 4Golpear, alcanzar o atropellar algo o a alguien de modo accidental, súbito o inesperado, o como parte de un movimiento para hacer otra cosa.
- 5Causarle a alguien algo, generalmente negativo, de modo súbito o inesperado.
- 6Contraer una enfermedad contagiosa, comenzar a sufrir cierta condición o estado, generalmente negativos.
- 7Encontrar o hallar a una persona o animal en cierto ánimo, temple o situación.
- 8Apostar o jugar dinero haciendo trampa.
- 9Entender algo, por ej. un chiste.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipllar,pilalr,pillarr,pillra,plilar,ppillar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pillar
Misspelling Variants of "pillar"
Frequency rank: #18,042 in Spanish
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