polea
[poˈlea]
The verdict
“polea” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,459 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,459
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mecanismo compuesto de una rueda, acanalada en su borde, por la cual pasa una cuerda en cuyos dos extremos actúan, respectivamente, la potencia y la resistencia. Se usa para levantar objetos pesado...
Corpus desk
Index ES-polea · polea · Spanish
polea · rank #52,459 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,459
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH politizada
Nearest frequency peer: politizada (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “polea”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pisé
pisé
47,546 corpus weight
- plomería
plomería
47,544 corpus weight
- polea
polea
47,542 corpus weight
- politizada
politizada
47,541 corpus weight
- poliéster
poliéster
47,540 corpus weight
- polvorín
polvorín
47,539 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “polea” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | polea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [poˈlea] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “polea” en español
Rare enough to double-check
polea is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,459 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [poˈlea]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mecanismo compuesto de una rueda, acanalada en su borde, por la cual pasa una cuerda en cuyos dos extremos actúan, respectivamente, la potencia y la resistencia. Se usa para levantar objetos pesado...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for polea, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 polea, spelled P-O-L-E-A.
Definition
- 1Mecanismo compuesto de una rueda, acanalada en su borde, por la cual pasa una cuerda en cuyos dos extremos actúan, respectivamente, la potencia y la resistencia. Se usa para levantar objetos pesados, y es más útil usar combinaciones de 2 o más poleas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how polea appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«En la Bauhaus se quería construir una modernidad funcional y económica. En la imagen, detalle del edificio de Bauhaus en Dessau. Las líneas de ventanales se manejan con un sistema de polea con cadena que permite abrir las ventanas a distancias idénticas».
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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