ampolla
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,116
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
ampolla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Levantamiento de la piel que contiene líquido seroso o pus, habitualmente producto de una quemadura, roce o enfermedad. Pronounced [ãmˈpoʝa]. Often confused with amplía and amapola.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ampolla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ãmˈpoʝa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #40,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ampolla is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ãmˈpoʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,116 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for ampolla, with forms such as "ammpolla", "amoplla", and "amplola". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "amplía", "amapola", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is ampolla, spelled A-M-P-O-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Levantamiento de la piel que contiene líquido seroso o pus, habitualmente producto de una quemadura, roce o enfermedad.
- 2Recipiente de vidrio con un cuello largo y estrecho, y el cuerpo ancho y redondeado.
- 3Botellita de vidrio sellada pero sin tapa, que conserva una dosis de un líquido inyectable. Para abrirla debe romperse con cuidado.
- 4Pequeña cantidad de aire, o algún elemento gaseoso, que toma un aspecto redondeado y que sube en los líquidos que hierven.
- 5Abultamiento en la superficie de un metal provocado por una bolsa de gas en el enfriamiento.
- 6Recipiente para vino y agua que se utiliza en la misa.
- 7Elemento de cristal que contiene los electrodos o el filamento incandescente de una lámpara eléctrica.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ammpolla,amoplla,amplola,ampola,ampolal,amppolla,apmolla,mapolla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ampolla
Misspelling Variants of "ampolla"
Frequency rank: #40,116 in Spanish
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