pin
[ˈpĩn]
The verdict
“pin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,538) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,538
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pieza de plástico o metal decorada con una insignia o un dibujo cualquiera, que se pega a la ropa como adorno, método de identificación o para hacer mención explícita de la adhesión a algún movimie...
Corpus desk
Index ES-pin · pin · Spanish
pin · rank #13,538 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,538
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pescar
Nearest frequency peer: pescar (-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 “pin”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- pendejadas
pendejadas
86,467 corpus weight
- perseguidos
perseguidos
86,465 corpus weight
- pescar
pescar
86,464 corpus weight
- pin
pin
86,463 corpus weight
- Pizarro
Pizarro
86,462 corpus weight
- plásticos
plásticos
86,460 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “pin” 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 | pin |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpĩn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pin”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pin is neighbouring look-alikes ("PP", "pm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈpĩn]. Frequency #13,538 among 6,028 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pin, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PP", "pm", "po", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is pin, spelled P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Pieza de plástico o metal decorada con una insignia o un dibujo cualquiera, que se pega a la ropa como adorno, método de identificación o para hacer mención explícita de la adhesión a algún movimiento.
- 2Cualquiera de los elementos individuales de conexión a un conector eléctrico multipolar.
Synonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).