bambuco
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
bambuco is aSpanishnoun. It means: Danza y género musical autóctono de origen andino colombiano que posee el aire dulce y acariciador. Se lo interpreta en compás de seis por ocho o de tres por cuatro. El baile en parejas imita el co... Pronounced [bãmˈbuko].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bambuco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bãmˈbuko] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bambuco is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bãmˈbuko]. 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: "Danza y género musical autóctono de origen andino colombiano que posee el aire dulce y acariciador. Se lo interpreta en compás de seis por ocho o de tres por cuatro. El baile en parejas imita el co...".
No misspelling variants are generated for bambuco in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 bambuco, spelled B-A-M-B-U-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Danza y género musical autóctono de origen andino colombiano que posee el aire dulce y acariciador. Se lo interpreta en compás de seis por ocho o de tres por cuatro. El baile en parejas imita el cortejo del varón a la mujer.
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