barbada

/[baɾˈβ̞að̞a]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

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barbada is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mandíbula inferior de las bestias de carga o de tiro. Pronounced [baɾˈβ̞að̞a].

Key facts for barbada
PropertyValue
Headwordbarbada
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[baɾˈβ̞að̞a]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for barbada is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baɾˈβ̞að̞a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for barbada 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 barbada, spelled B-A-R-B-A-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mandíbula inferior de las bestias de carga o de tiro.
  2. 2
    Por extensión, parte análoga del ser humano.
  3. 3
    Correa o cadena que, pasando por debajo de la barbada₂, sujeta la embocadura.
  4. 4
    Por extensión, cinta con que se sujeta el sombrero pasándola por debajo de la barbada₃.
  5. 5
    Bebida alcohólica obtenida de la fermentación y destilación de la melaza de caña de azúcar, a la que opcionalmente se envejece en barricas de madera.
  6. 6
    Tablón reforzado con que se cierran por delante los pesebres.
  7. 7
    Porción de juncos que forma la faz de la nasa, y por la entrada de ésta sigue con dirección oblicua hasta su centro.
  8. 8
    (Gaidropsarus mediterraneus) Pez de la familia de los gádidos, de cuerpo alargado, cilíndrico, aplanado lateralmente hacia la cola, de hasta 50 cm de largo, color pardo con manchas blancas.
  9. 9
    Por extensión, cualquier otro pez del género Gaidropsarus.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "barbada"?
"barbada" is spelled B-A-R-B-A-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is [baɾˈβ̞að̞a].
What does "barbada" mean?
As a noun, "barbada" means: Mandíbula inferior de las bestias de carga o de tiro.
How do you pronounce "barbada"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "barbada" is [baɾˈβ̞að̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "barbada" come from?
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Data Source: 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.