pincel
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,458
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
pincel is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento que dispone de un mango largo y delgado que, en uno de sus extremos, presenta un manojo de cerdas, pelos u otros filamentos. El pincel puede utilizarse para dibujar o pintar: lo que se ... Pronounced [pĩnˈsel]. Often confused with pine and Ponce.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pincel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pĩnˈsel] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pincel is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pĩnˈsel]. Corpus data places it at rank #22,458 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for pincel, with forms such as "ipncel", "picnel", and "pinccel". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "pine", "Ponce", "pixel", 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 pincel, spelled P-I-N-C-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento que dispone de un mango largo y delgado que, en uno de sus extremos, presenta un manojo de cerdas, pelos u otros filamentos. El pincel puede utilizarse para dibujar o pintar: lo que se hace es remojar las cerdas en pintura u otra sustancia similar y después deslizarlas sobre la superficie que se pretende pintar.
- 2Modo de pintar.
- 3Palo largo y delgado, con una escobilla, con que se da alquitrán a los costados y palos de la nave.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipncel,picnel,pinccel,pincell,pincle,pinecl,pinncel,pinsel,pnicel,ppincel
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Misspelling Variants of "pincel"
Frequency rank: #22,458 in Spanish
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