pleonasmo
[pleoˈnasmo]
The verdict
“pleonasmo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #97,735 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,735
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figura de construcción, que consiste en emplear en la oración uno o más vocablos innecesarios para que tenga sentido completo, pero con los cuales se da énfasis a lo dicho.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pleonasmo · pleonasmo · Spanish
pleonasmo · rank #97,735 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,735
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pochoclo
Nearest frequency peer: pochoclo (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “pleonasmo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pitillos
pitillos
2,271 corpus weight
- pleonasmo
pleonasmo
2,266 corpus weight
- pochoclo
pochoclo
2,264 corpus weight
- politiqueo
politiqueo
2,262 corpus weight
- porosos
porosos
2,258 corpus weight
- portorrique…
portorriqueño
2,255 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pleonasmo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pleonasmo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pleoˈnasmo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pleonasmo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pleonasmo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #97,735 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pleoˈnasmo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
pleonasmo has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is pleonasmo, spelled P-L-E-O-N-A-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1Figura de construcción, que consiste en emplear en la oración uno o más vocablos innecesarios para que tenga sentido completo, pero con los cuales se da énfasis a lo dicho.
- 2Demasía o redundancia viciosa de palabras.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pleonasmo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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