pisapapeles

/[pisapaˈpeles]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#85,172

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pisapapeles is aSpanishnoun. It means: Objeto pesado que se coloca sobre los papeles para que no se muevan. Pronounced [pisapaˈpeles].

Key facts for pisapapeles
PropertyValue
Headwordpisapapeles
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[pisapaˈpeles]
Letters11
Frequency rank#85,172
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for pisapapeles is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pisapaˈpeles]. Corpus data places it at rank #85,172 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Objeto pesado que se coloca sobre los papeles para que no se muevan.".

No misspelling variants are generated for pisapapeles 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 pisapapeles, spelled P-I-S-A-P-A-P-E-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Objeto pesado que se coloca sobre los papeles para que no se muevan.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #85,172 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pisapapeles"?
"pisapapeles" is spelled P-I-S-A-P-A-P-E-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [pisapaˈpeles].
What does "pisapapeles" mean?
As a noun, "pisapapeles" means: Objeto pesado que se coloca sobre los papeles para que no se muevan.
How do you pronounce "pisapapeles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pisapapeles" is [pisapaˈpeles]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pisapapeles" 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.