placita
[plaˈsit̪a]
The verdict
“placita” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,324 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,324
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diminutivo de plaza
Corpus desk
Index ES-placita · placita · Spanish
placita · rank #71,324 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,324
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pillamos
Nearest frequency peer: pillamos (-3 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “placita”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- petrificada
petrificada
28,684 corpus weight
- PGA
PGA
28,683 corpus weight
- pillamos
pillamos
28,680 corpus weight
- placita
placita
28,677 corpus weight
- poligonal
poligonal
28,672 corpus weight
- pontífices
pontífices
28,670 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “placita” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | placita |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [plaˈsit̪a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “placita” en español
Rare enough to double-check
placita is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,324 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [plaˈsit̪a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Diminutivo de plaza".
No misspelling variants are generated for placita in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is placita, spelled P-L-A-C-I-T-A.
Definition
- 1Diminutivo de plaza
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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