pepper – la pimienta

To remember that pepper is pronounced pee-mee-ehn-tah (pimienta) in Spanish, use the following mnemonic:

I was buying some pepper and the pepper made me sneeze. I suddenly wanted a pee, but they wouldn't let me enter (pimienta).

Pimienta is feminine, so it's la pimienta. Imagine a lady being sprinkled with pepper.