plexiglás
[pleksiˈɣ̞las]
The verdict
“plexiglás” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Material termoplástico transparente, moldeable, versátil y resistente, utilizado comúnmente como sustituto del vidrio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-plexiglas · plexiglás · Spanish
plexiglás · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plexiglás |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pleksiˈɣ̞las] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “plexiglás” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
plexiglás is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [pleksiˈɣ̞las]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Material termoplástico transparente, moldeable, versátil y resistente, utilizado comúnmente como sustituto del vidrio.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for plexiglás, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is plexiglás, spelled P-L-E-X-I-G-L-Á-S.
Definition
- 1Material termoplástico transparente, moldeable, versátil y resistente, utilizado comúnmente como sustituto del vidrio.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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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.