baobab

/[baoˈβ̞aβ̞]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#77,950

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

baobab is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Adansonia spp.) Cualquiera de ocho especies de árboles nativos de Madagascar, África continental y Australia, de gran tamaño, alcanzando los 25 m de altura y los 10 de diámetro de tronco, en el qu... Pronounced [baoˈβ̞aβ̞].

Key facts for baobab
PropertyValue
Headwordbaobab
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[baoˈβ̞aβ̞]
Letters6
Frequency rank#77,950
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of baobab in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for baobab is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baoˈβ̞aβ̞]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,950 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Adansonia spp.) Cualquiera de ocho especies de árboles nativos de Madagascar, África continental y Australia, de gran tamaño, alcanzando los 25 m de altura y los 10 de diámetro de tronco, en el qu...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for baobab 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 baobab, spelled B-A-O-B-A-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    (Adansonia spp.) Cualquiera de ocho especies de árboles nativos de Madagascar, África continental y Australia, de gran tamaño, alcanzando los 25 m de altura y los 10 de diámetro de tronco, en el que pueden almacenar más de 100.000 l de agua para hacer frente a las sequías. Son árboles de zona árida, de hoja caduca, con las ramas tortuosas y recubiertas de una corteza de color gris claro. Las flores son pequeñas, erectas salvo en A. digitata, y fructifican dando lugar a cápsulas repletas de una pulpa suave y blanca, comestible, poliseminadas.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #77,950 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "baobab"?
"baobab" is spelled B-A-O-B-A-B. The IPA pronunciation is [baoˈβ̞aβ̞].
What does "baobab" mean?
As a noun, "baobab" means: (Adansonia spp.) Cualquiera de ocho especies de árboles nativos de Madagascar, África continental y Australia, de gran tamaño, alcanzando los 25 m de altura y los 10 de diámetro de tronco, en el qu...
How do you pronounce "baobab"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "baobab" is [baoˈβ̞aβ̞]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "baobab" 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.