pupila
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,075
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
pupila is aSpanishnoun. It means: Orificio, circular en el hombre, en el centro del iris, por donde penetra la luz en el ojo. Pronounced [puˈpila]. Often confused with pupilo and pupilas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pupila |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [puˈpila] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pupila is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [puˈpila]. Corpus data places it at rank #31,075 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for pupila, with forms such as "ppuila", "ppupila", and "puipla". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "pupilo", "pupilas", "pupilos", 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 pupila, spelled P-U-P-I-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Orificio, circular en el hombre, en el centro del iris, por donde penetra la luz en el ojo.
- 2Mujer que vende su cuerpo.
- 3Gran capacidad de comprensión, de agudeza y penetración en el entendimiento de las cosas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppuila,ppupila,puipla,pupial,pupilla,puplia,puppila,uppila
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pupila
Misspelling Variants of "pupila"
Frequency rank: #31,075 in Spanish
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