py
/ˈpɨ/
The verdict
“py” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,327) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,327
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pie, pata trasera de los cuadrúpedos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-py · py · Spanish
py · rank #38,327 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,327
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH prófugos
Nearest frequency peer: prófugos (-2 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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “py”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- prometemos
prometemos
61,679 corpus weight
- provea
provea
61,677 corpus weight
- prófugos
prófugos
61,676 corpus weight
- py
py
61,674 corpus weight
- quejaban
quejaban
61,671 corpus weight
- quemaba
quemaba
61,670 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “py” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | py |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɨ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #38,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “py”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for py is neighbouring look-alikes ("pyme", "P", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈpɨ/. Frequency #38,327 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Pie, pata trasera de los cuadrúpedos.".
No misspelling variants are generated for py in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pyme", "P", "PP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is py, spelled P-Y.
Definition
- 1Pie, pata trasera de los cuadrúpedos.
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.