baba del diablo

/[ˈbaβ̞a ð̞el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo]/ phrase

Letters

15 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

baba del diablo is aSpanishphrase. It means: Fenómeno de acumulación de pequeñas telas de araña que, en contacto con el aire, se solidifican y vuelan con el viento. Pronounced [ˈbaβ̞a ð̞el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo].

Key facts for baba del diablo
PropertyValue
Headwordbaba del diablo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈbaβ̞a ð̞el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo]
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

baba del diablo is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for baba del diablo is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbaβ̞a ð̞el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Fenómeno de acumulación de pequeñas telas de araña que, en contacto con el aire, se solidifican y vuelan con el viento.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for baba del diablo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 baba del diablo, spelled B-A-B-A- -D-E-L- -D-I-A-B-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fenómeno de acumulación de pequeñas telas de araña que, en contacto con el aire, se solidifican y vuelan con el viento.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "baba del diablo"?
"baba del diablo" is spelled B-A-B-A- -D-E-L- -D-I-A-B-L-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbaβ̞a ð̞el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo].
What does "baba del diablo" mean?
As a phrase, "baba del diablo" means: Fenómeno de acumulación de pequeñas telas de araña que, en contacto con el aire, se solidifican y vuelan con el viento.
How do you pronounce "baba del diablo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "baba del diablo" is [ˈbaβ̞a ð̞el̪ ˈd̪jaβ̞lo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "baba del diablo" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.