pinta
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,871
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pinta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mancha pequeña y, por lo común, redondeada, que destaca en el colorido del plumaje de las aves, en el pelaje de los animales, en las piedras o en superficies pintadas. Pronounced [ˈpĩn̪t̪a]. It ranks #3,871 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with pit and puta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pinta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpĩn̪t̪a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pinta is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpĩn̪t̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,871 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for pinta, with forms such as "ipnta", "pinat", and "pinnta". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pit", "puta", "pito", 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 pinta, spelled P-I-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mancha pequeña y, por lo común, redondeada, que destaca en el colorido del plumaje de las aves, en el pelaje de los animales, en las piedras o en superficies pintadas.
- 2Mancha pequeña redondeada que usa de adorno en las telas.
- 3Partícula de líquido de forma esferoidal.
- 4Aspecto o presentación de una persona o cosa.
- 5Enfermedad tropical caracterizada por lesiones de la piel y despigmentación, producida por la bacteria Treponema carateum.
- 6Señal que se ve en la esquina de los naipes y que permite identificar el palo antes de mostrar las cartas.
- 7En algunos juegos de naipes, carta que señala al palo de triunfos.
- 8Colores y dibujos propios de una tela.
- 9Categoría más rica del mineral chancado.
- 10Juego infantil en el que los niños corren para evitar que los toque el que persigue.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipnta,pinat,pinnta,pintta,pitna,pnita,ppinta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pinta
Misspelling Variants of "pinta"
Frequency rank: #3,871 in Spanish
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