purismo
[puˈɾismo]
The verdict
“purismo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,306 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,306
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celo riguroso por conservar la pureza doctrinaria, ejecutiva, artística, profesional, ética, étnica, etcétera. En el lenguaje, especialmente en el escrito y en oratoria, se procura y aconseja evita...
Corpus desk
Index ES-purismo · purismo · Spanish
purismo · rank #83,306 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,306
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pulsada
Nearest frequency peer: pulsada (-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 “purismo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- protagoniza…
protagonizará
16,701 corpus weight
- pulsada
pulsada
16,696 corpus weight
- purismo
purismo
16,695 corpus weight
- pómulo
pómulo
16,692 corpus weight
- póstumamente
póstumamente
16,691 corpus weight
- púbica
púbica
16,690 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “purismo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | purismo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [puˈɾismo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “purismo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
purismo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,306 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [puˈɾismo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celo riguroso por conservar la pureza doctrinaria, ejecutiva, artística, profesional, ética, étnica, etcétera. En el lenguaje, especialmente en el escrito y en oratoria, se procura y aconseja evita...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for purismo, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is purismo, spelled P-U-R-I-S-M-O.
Definition
- 1Celo riguroso por conservar la pureza doctrinaria, ejecutiva, artística, profesional, ética, étnica, etcétera. En el lenguaje, especialmente en el escrito y en oratoria, se procura y aconseja evitar barbarismos y neologismos que se tilda de innecesarios.
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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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