pincelada
[pĩnseˈlað̞a]
The verdict
“pincelada” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,132 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,132
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toque de pincel en el proceso de pintar, especialmente una obra de arte pictórico.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pincelada · pincelada · Spanish
pincelada · rank #51,132 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,132
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pilot
Nearest frequency peer: pilot (-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 “pincelada”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pescan
pescan
48,873 corpus weight
- petrolíferas
petrolíferas
48,872 corpus weight
- Peñaloza
Peñaloza
48,871 corpus weight
- pilot
pilot
48,870 corpus weight
- pincelada
pincelada
48,869 corpus weight
- piro
piro
48,867 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pincelada” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pincelada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pĩnseˈlað̞a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pincelada” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pincelada is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,132 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pĩnseˈlað̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pincelada, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct Spanish form is pincelada, spelled P-I-N-C-E-L-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1Toque de pincel en el proceso de pintar, especialmente una obra de arte pictórico.
- 2Representación viva o caracterización, generalmente con palabras breves, de un objeto, idea, elemento o rasgo.
- 3Matiz, elemento o tono característico que se añade a una situación o a una manera de expresarse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pincelada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Para realizar los esbozos pintados, por ejemplo, lo hacen con pinceladas alargadas para las espigas y con pinceladas más precisas para los racimos.
El autor se encarga de describir con pinceladas periodísticas una fantasía, en este caso un mundo al revés.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).