puntada
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,360
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
puntada is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de puntar. Pronounced [pũn̪ˈt̪að̞a]. Often confused with puntas and putada.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puntada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pũn̪ˈt̪að̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for puntada is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pũn̪ˈt̪að̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #47,360 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for puntada, with forms such as "pnutada", "ppuntada", and "punatda". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "puntas", "putada", "puntal", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is puntada, spelled P-U-N-T-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de puntar.
- 2Método de asegurar el hilo, atravesando con una aguja u otro instrumento puntiagudo un material textil al coser o bordar para fabricar prendas de vestir o cualquier tipo de artículo que necesite confección.
- 3Cada uno de los agujeros hechos con aguja, lezna u otro instrumento semejante, en la tela, cuero u otra materia que se va cosiendo.
- 4Acción y efecto de pasar la aguja por cada uno de estos agujeros mientras se está cosiendo.
- 5Espacio que media entre dos de estos agujeros próximos entre sí.
- 6Porción de hilo que ocupa este espacio.
- 7Pinchazo producido por el asta del toro.
- 8Dolor agudo intenso y localizado en un lugar reducido, sobre todo cuando es en el costado del tórax y mientras se hace actividad física.
- 9Dicho ingenioso y mordaz o humorístico.
- 10Razón o palabra que se dice como al descuido para recordar una especie o motivar que se hable de ella.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pnutada,ppuntada,punatda,punntada,puntaad,puntadda,puntdaa,punttada,putnada,upntada
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for puntada
Misspelling Variants of "puntada"
Frequency rank: #47,360 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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