bomba de mano
[ˈbõmba ð̞e ˈmano]
The verdict
“bomba de mano” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Artefacto explosivo que por su pequeño tamaño se puede arrojar con la mano.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bomba de mano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈbõmba ð̞e ˈmano] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bomba de mano” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bomba de mano is 13 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbõmba ð̞e ˈmano]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for bomba de mano 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 bomba de mano, spelled B-O-M-B-A- -D-E- -M-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Artefacto explosivo que por su pequeño tamaño se puede arrojar con la mano.
- 2Artefacto para extraer, impulsar, inyectar o comprimir un fluido y que tiene un tamaño lo suficientemente pequeño como para poder ser manejado con la mano.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bomba de mano”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-O-M-B-A- -D-E- -M-A-N-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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