punitiva
[puniˈt̪iβ̞a]
The verdict
“punitiva” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #55,846 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,846
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino de punitivo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-punitiva · punitiva · Spanish
punitiva · rank #55,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,846
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pulcro
Nearest frequency peer: pulcro (-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 “punitiva”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- pseudocienc…
pseudociencia
44,162 corpus weight
- publicitado
publicitado
44,159 corpus weight
- pulcro
pulcro
44,156 corpus weight
- punitiva
punitiva
44,155 corpus weight
- pupa
pupa
44,153 corpus weight
- pusiese
pusiese
44,150 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “punitiva” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | punitiva |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [puniˈt̪iβ̞a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “punitiva” en español
Rare enough to double-check
punitiva is uncommon Spanish at frequency #55,846 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [puniˈt̪iβ̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del femenino de punitivo.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for punitiva, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 punitiva, spelled P-U-N-I-T-I-V-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino de punitivo.
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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