barbada
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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barbada is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mandíbula inferior de las bestias de carga o de tiro. Pronounced [baɾˈβ̞að̞a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barbada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baɾˈβ̞að̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Mandíbula inferior de las bestias de carga o de tiro.
- 2Por extensión, parte análoga del ser humano.
- 3Correa o cadena que, pasando por debajo de la barbada₂, sujeta la embocadura.
- 4Por extensión, cinta con que se sujeta el sombrero pasándola por debajo de la barbada₃.
- 5Bebida alcohólica obtenida de la fermentación y destilación de la melaza de caña de azúcar, a la que opcionalmente se envejece en barricas de madera.
- 6Tablón reforzado con que se cierran por delante los pesebres.
- 7Porción de juncos que forma la faz de la nasa, y por la entrada de ésta sigue con dirección oblicua hasta su centro.
- 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.
- 9Por extensión, cualquier otro pez del género Gaidropsarus.
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