puntadas
[pũn̪ˈt̪að̞as]
The verdict
“puntadas” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,864 among 48,357 “P” headwords), classed as a participle. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,864
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,357
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma del femenino plural de puntado, participio de puntar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puntadas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Participle |
| IPA | [pũn̪ˈt̪að̞as] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “puntadas” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
puntadas is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,864 among 48,357 “P” headwords, classed as aparticiple, transcribed [pũn̪ˈt̪að̞as]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del femenino plural de puntado, participio de puntar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for puntadas, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 puntadas, spelled P-U-N-T-A-D-A-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino plural de puntado, participio de puntar.
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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Using “puntadas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-U-N-T-A-D-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pũn̪ˈt̪að̞as] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.