pizarra
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,427
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
pizarra is aSpanishnoun. It means: Roca metamórfica homogénea formada por la compactación de arcillas. Se presenta generalmente en un color opaco azulado oscuro y dividida en lajas u hojas planas. Está formada a partir de rocas sedi... Pronounced [piˈsara]. Often confused with Pizarro and pizarrón.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pizarra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈsara] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pizarra is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piˈsara]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,427 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 pizarra, with forms such as "ipzarra", "piazrra", and "pizara". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Pizarro", "pizarrón", "pizarras", 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 pizarra, spelled P-I-Z-A-R-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Roca metamórfica homogénea formada por la compactación de arcillas. Se presenta generalmente en un color opaco azulado oscuro y dividida en lajas u hojas planas. Está formada a partir de rocas sedimentarias arcillosas.
- 2Trozo de esta roca preparado para usarlo como teja y en la construcción.
- 3Pieza de material plano y rígido, generalmente de forma rectangular, que se utiliza para escribir o dibujar con tiza, yeso u otro material similar.
- 4Superficie de escritura reutilizable en la cual el texto o figuras se realizan con tiza u otro tipo de rotuladores borrables.
- 5Conjunto de instrumentos e indicadores en vehículos (automóviles de turismo, camiones, motocicletas, etc.) que comprende instrumentos y tableros tales como el indicador de velocidad del vehículo, el tacómetro o contador de revoluciones, el indicador de temperatura de refrigerante y el indicador de combustible restante.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipzarra,piazrra,pizara,pizarar,pizrara,pizzarra,ppizarra,pziarra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pizarra
Misspelling Variants of "pizarra"
Frequency rank: #14,427 in Spanish
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