pirita
[piˈɾit̪a]
The verdict
“pirita” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,545 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,545
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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 ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-pirita · pirita · Spanish
pirita · rank #62,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,545
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pistacho
Nearest frequency peer: pistacho (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “pirita”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- piadosos
piadosos
37,460 corpus weight
- pirita
pirita
37,456 corpus weight
- pistacho
pistacho
37,455 corpus weight
- plane
plane
37,454 corpus weight
- plasmáticas
plasmáticas
37,453 corpus weight
- polka
polka
37,451 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pirita” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pirita |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈɾit̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pirita” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pirita is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,545 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [piˈɾit̪a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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 ...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pirita, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 pirita, spelled P-I-R-I-T-A.
Definition
- 1Mineral 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pirita appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A menudo la pirita y el oro verdadero se han confundido uno por el otro. A primera vista puede parecer que comparten unas pocas características similares, pero al inspeccionarlos de cerca se verá que son muy diferentes. Hay unas pocas pruebas que puedes realizar para demostrar si has encontrado oro verdadero o pirita. "Pirita u oro de tontos": acuñado en…
Synonyms
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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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