Pucallpa
[puˈkalpa]
The verdict
“Pucallpa” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #56,589 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,589
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciudad de Perú, capital departamental y provincial. Perteneciente a la región Ucayali con una superficie de 30 kilómetros y con una población de 283.292 (previsto en el 2010).
Corpus desk
Index ES-pucallpa · Pucallpa · Spanish
Pucallpa · rank #56,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,589
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pudiente
Nearest frequency peer: pudiente (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Pucallpa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- proteico
proteico
43,416 corpus weight
- protuberanc…
protuberancia
43,415 corpus weight
- Pucallpa
Pucallpa
43,412 corpus weight
- pudiente
pudiente
43,411 corpus weight
- puga
puga
43,410 corpus weight
- puliendo
puliendo
43,409 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Pucallpa” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pucallpa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [puˈkalpa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pucallpa” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Pucallpa is uncommon Spanish at frequency #56,589 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [puˈkalpa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Pucallpa, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is Pucallpa, spelled P-U-C-A-L-L-P-A.
Definition
- 1Ciudad de Perú, capital departamental y provincial. Perteneciente a la región Ucayali con una superficie de 30 kilómetros y con una población de 283.292 (previsto en el 2010).
- 2Pueblo ubicado al sur de Ecuador, perteneciente a la provincia de Azuay.
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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