pipeta

/[piˈpet̪a]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#83,269

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pipeta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tubo de cristal ensanchado en su parte media, que sirve para trasladar pequeñas porciones de líquido de un vaso a otro, para lo cual se introduce en el líquido y antes de sacar el aparato, se tapa ... Pronounced [piˈpet̪a].

Key facts for pipeta
PropertyValue
Headwordpipeta
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[piˈpet̪a]
Letters6
Frequency rank#83,269
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pipeta in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for pipeta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈpet̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,269 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pipeta in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 pipeta, spelled P-I-P-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tubo de cristal ensanchado en su parte media, que sirve para trasladar pequeñas porciones de líquido de un vaso a otro, para lo cual se introduce en el líquido y antes de sacar el aparato, se tapa su orificio superior hasta que se quiere que salga el contenido.
  2. 2
    Tubo de varias formas, cuyo orificio superior se tapa a fin de que la presión atmosférica impida la salida del líquido.
  3. 3
    Sustancia que se esparce sobre la piel de los perros domésticos para prevenir la aparición de pulgas.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #83,269 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pipeta"?
"pipeta" is spelled P-I-P-E-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [piˈpet̪a].
What does "pipeta" mean?
As a noun, "pipeta" means: Tubo de cristal ensanchado en su parte media, que sirve para trasladar pequeñas porciones de líquido de un vaso a otro, para lo cual se introduce en el líquido y antes de sacar el aparato, se tapa ...
How do you pronounce "pipeta"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pipeta" is [piˈpet̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pipeta" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.