pío
[ˈpio]
The verdict
“pío” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,038) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,038
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Devoto, inclinado a la piedad, dado al culto de la religión y a las cosas pertenecientes al servicio de Dios y de los santos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pio · pío · Spanish
pío · rank #12,038 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,038
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pusimos
Nearest frequency peer: pusimos (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “pío”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- providencia
providencia
87,966 corpus weight
- príncipes
príncipes
87,965 corpus weight
- pusimos
pusimos
87,964 corpus weight
- pío
pío
87,963 corpus weight
- pólvora
pólvora
87,962 corpus weight
- quebrada
quebrada
87,960 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “pío” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | pío |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈpio] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pío”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pío is neighbouring look-alikes ("PP", "pm", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈpio]. Frequency #12,038 among 6,028 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
pío doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PP", "pm", "po", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is pío, spelled P-Í-O.
Definition
- 1Devoto, inclinado a la piedad, dado al culto de la religión y a las cosas pertenecientes al servicio de Dios y de los santos.
- 2Persona crédula en extremo que da por válidas expresiones sin exigir argumentación razonable.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).