pizca
[ˈpiska]
The verdict
“pizca” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #16,941. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,941
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parte muy escasa de una cosa, como la que se podría coger con las puntas de los dedos índice y pulgar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pizca · pizca · Spanish
pizca · rank #16,941 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,941
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pinzas
Nearest frequency peer: pinzas (-1 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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “pizca”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Pineda
Pineda
83,063 corpus weight
- pintados
pintados
83,062 corpus weight
- pinzas
pinzas
83,061 corpus weight
- pizca
pizca
83,060 corpus weight
- PNV
PNV
83,059 corpus weight
- podrida
podrida
83,058 corpus weight
What this shows “pizca” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | pizca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpiska] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “pizca”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around pizca (IPA [ˈpiska]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,941 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Parte muy escasa de una cosa, como la que se podría coger con las puntas de los dedos índice y pulgar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pizca, with forms such as "ipzca", "picza", and "pizac". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "poza", "placa", "pizza", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is pizca, spelled P-I-Z-C-A.
Definition
- 1Parte muy escasa de una cosa, como la que se podría coger con las puntas de los dedos índice y pulgar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pizca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
¿Ha cortado usted el bastón? -pregunté sofocando la risa. -Tan poco, que apenas se nota -respondió Anís en el mismo tono-. Y pienso continuar todos los días, pero solo una pizca, una miaja. La gracia está en que el bonus vir se figure que el bastón encoge
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipzca
- picza
- pizac
- pizcca
- pizzca
- ppizca
- pzica
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pizca - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).