pis
[ˈpis]
The verdict
“pis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,527) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,527
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Secreción líquida de los riñones, conducida a la vejiga por los uréteres y expelida por la uretra.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pis · pis · Spanish
pis · rank #19,527 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,527
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH perteneció
Nearest frequency peer: perteneció (-2 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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “pis”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- periódicas
periódicas
80,478 corpus weight
- perras
perras
80,477 corpus weight
- perteneció
perteneció
80,476 corpus weight
- pis
pis
80,474 corpus weight
- planteando
planteando
80,472 corpus weight
- plate
plate
80,471 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “pis” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpis] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pis”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pis is neighbouring look-alikes ("PP", "pm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈpis]. Frequency #19,527 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Secreción líquida de los riñones, conducida a la vejiga por los uréteres y expelida por la uretra.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pis, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PP", "pm", "po", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is pis, spelled P-I-S.
Definition
- 1Secreción líquida de los riñones, conducida a la vejiga por los uréteres y expelida por la uretra.
This word in other languages
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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