bombilla
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,912
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
bombilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Dispositivo eléctrico formado por un filamento de vanadio u otro metal en un recipiente vacío o lleno de un gas inerte, a través del cual se hace pasar corriente eléctrica para iluminar por incande... Pronounced [bõmˈbiʝa]. Often confused with Bonilla and boquilla.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bombilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bõmˈbiʝa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bombilla is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bõmˈbiʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,912 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for bombilla, with forms such as "bbombilla", "bmobilla", and "bobmilla". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Bonilla", "boquilla", "bombillas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 bombilla, spelled B-O-M-B-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dispositivo eléctrico formado por un filamento de vanadio u otro metal en un recipiente vacío o lleno de un gas inerte, a través del cual se hace pasar corriente eléctrica para iluminar por incandescencia.
- 2Delgado tubo de metal u otro material, dotado de un filtro en un extremo, que se utiliza para sorber el mate.
- 3(Dipsacus fullonum) Hierba bianual espinosa de la familia de las dipsacáceas, originaria del hemisferio norte. Las hojas basales crecen en roseta y están fusionadas, de modo que forman un recipiente que recoge agua de lluvia. Produce flores rosadas, agrupadas en un capítulo en el ápice del tallo. Esta inflorescencia tiene el aspecto de un cepillo lleno de púas y cuando está seca se usa para cardar. A su raíz se le da uso medicinal.
- 4(Cynara cardunculus) Miembro de las astreráceas, similar a la alcachofa o alcaucil (Cynara scolymus), de la que a veces se considera subespecie.
- 5Tubo de plástico para sorber bebidas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbombilla,bmobilla,bobmilla,bombbilla,bombila,bombilal,bomblila,bomiblla,bommbilla,obmbilla,vomvilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bombilla
Misspelling Variants of "bombilla"
Frequency rank: #21,912 in Spanish
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