powder
/paʊ.də(ɹ)/
The verdict
“powder” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #73,968 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,968
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polvo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-powder · powder · Spanish
powder · rank #73,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,968
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH potosino
Nearest frequency peer: potosino (-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 “powder”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- poltergeist
poltergeist
26,040 corpus weight
- populoso
populoso
26,036 corpus weight
- potosino
potosino
26,034 corpus weight
- powder
powder
26,033 corpus weight
- prefrontal
prefrontal
26,030 corpus weight
- princeps
princeps
26,027 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “powder” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | powder |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /paʊ.də(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “powder” en español
Rare enough to double-check
powder is uncommon Spanish at frequency #73,968 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /paʊ.də(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Polvo.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for powder in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
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 powder, spelled P-O-W-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Polvo.
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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