purismo
[puˈɾismo]
The verdict
“purismo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,306 among 48,357 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,306
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,357
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| 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) |
Where “purismo” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
purismo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,306 among 48,357 “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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Using “purismo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-U-R-I-S-M-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [puˈɾismo] (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.