piropo
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,750
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
piropo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Aleación de cuatro partes de cobre por una de oro, usada por los antiguos en joyería. Pronounced [piˈɾopo]. Often confused with prop and popo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piropo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈɾopo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for piropo is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈɾopo]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,750 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for piropo, with forms such as "ipropo", "piorpo", and "piroop". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "prop", "popo", "promo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 piropo, spelled P-I-R-O-P-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aleación de cuatro partes de cobre por una de oro, usada por los antiguos en joyería.
- 2Gema del grupo de los granates, de color rojo o rojizo, gran dureza y fractura angular poco común.
- 3Expresión de alabanza dirigida a alguien por su aspecto o comportamiento.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipropo,piorpo,piroop,piroppo,pirpoo,pirropo,ppiropo,priopo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for piropo
Misspelling Variants of "piropo"
Frequency rank: #36,750 in Spanish
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