purista
[puˈɾist̪a]
The verdict
“purista” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,643 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,643
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que escribe o habla con pureza.
Corpus desk
Index ES-purista · purista · Spanish
purista · rank #65,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,643
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pune
Nearest frequency peer: pune (-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 “purista”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- promiscua
promiscua
34,364 corpus weight
- propicios
propicios
34,363 corpus weight
- protesten
protesten
34,362 corpus weight
- pune
pune
34,359 corpus weight
- purista
purista
34,358 corpus weight
- quen
quen
34,353 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “purista” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | purista |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [puˈɾist̪a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “purista” en español
Rare enough to double-check
purista is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,643 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [puˈɾist̪a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for purista, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is purista, spelled P-U-R-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Que escribe o habla con pureza.
- 2Se aplica a quien por afán de ser puro en la manera de escribir o de hablar, se expresa con afectación.
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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