porrista

/[poˈrist̪a]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#83,279

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

porrista is aSpanishnoun. It means: Persona que anima a los miembros y aficionados de un equipo deportivo con música, baile y pruebas gimnásticas Pronounced [poˈrist̪a].

Key facts for porrista
PropertyValue
Headwordporrista
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[poˈrist̪a]
Letters8
Frequency rank#83,279
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of porrista in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for porrista is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [poˈrist̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,279 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for porrista in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is porrista, spelled P-O-R-R-I-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Persona que anima a los miembros y aficionados de un equipo deportivo con música, baile y pruebas gimnásticas
  2. 2
    Miembro de una antigua fuerza clandestina de seguridad apodada la Porra
  3. 3
    Aficionado entusiasta de un equipo deportivo.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #83,279 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "porrista"?
"porrista" is spelled P-O-R-R-I-S-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is [poˈrist̪a].
What does "porrista" mean?
As a noun, "porrista" means: Persona que anima a los miembros y aficionados de un equipo deportivo con música, baile y pruebas gimnásticas
How do you pronounce "porrista"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "porrista" is [poˈrist̪a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "porrista" come from?
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Data Source: 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.