pirita
[piˈɾit̪a]
The verdict
“pirita” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #62,545 among 48,357 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,545
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,357
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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 ...
| 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) |
Where “pirita” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pirita is uncommon Spanish at frequency #62,545 among 48,357 “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.
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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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Using “pirita”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-I-R-I-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.