pimienta
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,693
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
pimienta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Baya seca del pimentero (Piper nigrum), empleada como especia, de sabor picante y acre. Pronounced [piˈmjẽn̪t̪a]. It ranks #8,693 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pimiento and pimientos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pimienta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈmjẽn̪t̪a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pimienta is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈmjẽn̪t̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,693 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for pimienta, with forms such as "ipmienta", "piimenta", and "pimeinta". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "pimiento", "pimientos", 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 pimienta, spelled P-I-M-I-E-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Baya seca del pimentero (Piper nigrum), empleada como especia, de sabor picante y acre.
- 2Cosecha de pimientos que se obtiene de una vez.
- 3Figuradamente, interés emocional que despierta una situación.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipmienta,piimenta,pimeinta,pimienat,pimiennta,pimientta,pimietna,pimineta,pimmienta,pmiienta,ppimienta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pimienta
Misspelling Variants of "pimienta"
Frequency rank: #8,693 in Spanish
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