púgil
[ˈpuxil]
The verdict
“púgil” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,356 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,356
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gladiador que contendía o combatía a puñadas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pugil · púgil · Spanish
púgil · rank #71,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,356
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH quai
Nearest frequency peer: quai (+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 “púgil”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- Puccini
Puccini
28,649 corpus weight
- pudrió
pudrió
28,648 corpus weight
- pulverizaci…
pulverización
28,647 corpus weight
- púgil
púgil
28,645 corpus weight
- quai
quai
28,644 corpus weight
- quemaste
quemaste
28,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “púgil” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | púgil |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpuxil] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “púgil” en español
Rare enough to double-check
púgil is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,356 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpuxil]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gladiador que contendía o combatía a puñadas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for púgil in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is púgil, spelled P-Ú-G-I-L.
Definition
- 1Gladiador que contendía o combatía a puñadas.
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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