tombola
/tɒmˈbəʊlə/
"tombola" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tombola” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - A lottery in which winning tickets are drawn from a revolving drum.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tombola · tombola · English
tombola · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tombola |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɒmˈbəʊlə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tombola” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tombola is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /tɒmˈbəʊlə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tombola in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian tombola. The correct English form is tombola, spelled T-O-M-B-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1A lottery in which winning tickets are drawn from a revolving drum.
- 2The drum from which the tickets are drawn.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tombola appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He had been given no choice in the matter of sharing rooms. Gary and he were drawn out of the tombola together, so together they were.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian tombola.
This word in other languages
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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.