piñón
[piˈɲõn]
The verdict
“piñón” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #40,465. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,465
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,357
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fruto comestible del pino.
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 | piñón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈɲõn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “piñón” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around piñón (IPA [piˈɲõn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,465 among 48,357 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for piñón, with forms such as "ipñón", "piñnó", and "piñónn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pon", "pío", "piso", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is piñón, spelled P-I-Ñ-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Fruto comestible del pino.
- 2Uno de los dos engranajes que se usan para cambiar de marcha₇ en la bicicleta. Los piñones son los que van pegados a la rueda trasera, siendo los platos₅ los que van en la delantera.
- 3(Erythrina poeppigiana) Árbol caducifolio de la familia Fabaceae nativo la zona intertropical de Centroamérica, Sudamérica y Antillas Mayores. Es usado por su valor ornamental debido a su amplia floración y para dar sombra a otros cultivos.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipñón
- piñnó
- piñónn
- pióñn
- ppiñón
- pñión
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piñón - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “piñón”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-I-Ñ-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [piˈɲõn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “pon” - see the side-by-side comparison. piñón vs pon
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.