pirita

/[piˈɾit̪a]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#62,545

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pirita is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mineral amarillo, brillante, semejante al color del latón y al del oro. Su densidad promedio es 5,025 g/cm³. Químicamente es un sulfuro de hierro II de fórmula FeS₂, que corresponde así mismo a un ... Pronounced [piˈɾit̪a].

Key facts for pirita
PropertyValue
Headwordpirita
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[piˈɾit̪a]
Letters6
Frequency rank#62,545
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for pirita is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈɾit̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #62,545 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mineral amarillo, brillante, semejante al color del latón y al del oro. Su densidad promedio es 5,025 g/cm³. Químicamente es un sulfuro de hierro II de fórmula FeS₂, que corresponde así mismo a un ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for pirita in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 pirita, spelled P-I-R-I-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mineral amarillo, brillante, semejante al color del latón y al del oro. Su densidad promedio es 5,025 g/cm³. Químicamente es un sulfuro de hierro II de fórmula FeS₂, que corresponde así mismo a un dimorfo suyo: la marcasita, con la cual suele confundírsele.

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Frequency rank: #62,545 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pirita"?
"pirita" is spelled P-I-R-I-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [piˈɾit̪a].
What does "pirita" mean?
As a noun, "pirita" means: Mineral amarillo, brillante, semejante al color del latón y al del oro. Su densidad promedio es 5,025 g/cm³. Químicamente es un sulfuro de hierro II de fórmula FeS₂, que corresponde así mismo a un ...
How do you pronounce "pirita"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pirita" is [piˈɾit̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pirita" come from?
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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.