pulpería
[pulpeˈɾia]
The verdict
“pulpería” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #82,342 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,342
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tienda o lugar de barrio/colonia donde se venden víveres y mercancías al por menor.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pulperia · pulpería · Spanish
pulpería · rank #82,342 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,342
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pulcra
Nearest frequency peer: pulcra (-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 “pulpería”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- psychologic…
psychological
17,663 corpus weight
- publicitada
publicitada
17,662 corpus weight
- pulcra
pulcra
17,660 corpus weight
- pulpería
pulpería
17,659 corpus weight
- puntúa
puntúa
17,658 corpus weight
- púlpitos
púlpitos
17,656 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “pulpería” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pulpería |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pulpeˈɾia] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “pulpería” en español
Rare enough to double-check
pulpería is uncommon Spanish at frequency #82,342 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pulpeˈɾia]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pulpería in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 pulpería, spelled P-U-L-P-E-R-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Tienda o lugar de barrio/colonia donde se venden víveres y mercancías al por menor.
- 2Tienda en América donde se venden diferentes mercancías para el abasto; como son vino, aguardiente y otros licores, mercancías pertenecientes a droguería, buhonería, mercería y otros; pero no paños, lienzos, ni otros tejidos.
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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