pire
[ˈpiɾe]
The verdict
“pire” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,382 among 48,357 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,382
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,357
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de pirar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pire |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈpiɾe] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pire” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pire is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,382 among 48,357 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈpiɾe]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pire in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct Spanish form is pire, spelled P-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del presente de subjuntivo de pirar.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de pirar.
- 3Segunda persona del singular (usted) del imperativo de pirar.
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 “pire”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈpiɾe] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.