barbasco

/[baɾˈβ̞asko]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

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barbasco is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Paullinia pinnata o Serjania triquetra) Tipo de liana o bejuco (planta con tallos largos y flexibles) perteneciente a la familia de las sapindáceas, que habita zonas tropicales en América y África... Pronounced [baɾˈβ̞asko].

Key facts for barbasco
PropertyValue
Headwordbarbasco
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[baɾˈβ̞asko]
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

barbasco 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 barbasco is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baɾˈβ̞asko]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

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

Definition

  1. 1
    (Paullinia pinnata o Serjania triquetra) Tipo de liana o bejuco (planta con tallos largos y flexibles) perteneciente a la familia de las sapindáceas, que habita zonas tropicales en América y África, y se emplea para la pesca en la Amazonía por sus componentes tóxicos, los cuales adormecen los reflejos de los peces, haciéndolos subir a la superficie.
  2. 2
    Sustancia tóxica que contiene el barbasco₁, capaz de alterar, por ingestión, varias funciones corporales e incluso causar la muerte.
  3. 3
    (Lonchocarpus utilis o nicou) Planta de las leguminosas (Fabaceae), nativa de selvas tropicales de Sudamérica, de hojas compuestas, tallo cilíndrico y semileñoso, con flores en racimos y fruto en forma de vaina aplanada y rojiza. Su raíz contiene un químico tóxico llamado rotenona, con el que a veces se pesca.
  4. 4
    Estado de alteración física y mental causado por el consumo de bebidas alcohólicas.
  5. 5
    (Canella winterana) Árbol de la familia Canellaceae, nativo de las Antillas, que puede alcanzar los 15 m de altura, de copa frondosa, hojas duras, flores perfumadas de color blanco y violeta, y fruto rojizo. La corteza tiene usos medicinales y para condimento.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "barbasco"?
"barbasco" is spelled B-A-R-B-A-S-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is [baɾˈβ̞asko].
What does "barbasco" mean?
As a noun, "barbasco" means: (Paullinia pinnata o Serjania triquetra) Tipo de liana o bejuco (planta con tallos largos y flexibles) perteneciente a la familia de las sapindáceas, que habita zonas tropicales en América y África...
How do you pronounce "barbasco"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "barbasco" is [baɾˈβ̞asko]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "barbasco" 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.