pinza
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,148
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pinza is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento que consta de dos partes que se juntan en una de sus puntas, y que se mantiene cerrado, fijo o apretado, mediante un resorte o muelle, y cuya utilidad principal es sujetar objetos como ... Pronounced [ˈpĩnsa]. Often confused with pisa and pipa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pinza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpĩnsa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pinza is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpĩnsa]. Corpus data places it at rank #22,148 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 pinza, with forms such as "ipnza", "pinaz", and "pinnza". 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, "pisa", "pipa", "pita", 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 pinza, spelled P-I-N-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento que consta de dos partes que se juntan en una de sus puntas, y que se mantiene cerrado, fijo o apretado, mediante un resorte o muelle, y cuya utilidad principal es sujetar objetos como papeles, ropa, pelo y otros.
- 2Instrumento que constan de dos partes que se juntan en una de sus puntas mediante presión manual, y que tiende a abrirse en su posición de reposo. Según su forma y tamaño se usa para sujetar y tirar en labores de cocina, cirugía, depilación y otras.
- 3Órgano de dos piezas para sujetar y desgarrar que poseen numerosos animales, en particular los artrópodos y crustáceos.
- 4Pliegue de la ropa que se cose para que la prenda de vestir tome cierta forma.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipnza,pinaz,pinnza,pinzza,pizna,pniza,ppinza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pinza
Misspelling Variants of "pinza"
Frequency rank: #22,148 in Spanish
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