bombillo
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#84,633
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
bombillo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Objeto de vidrio que contiene un filamento incandescente por electricidad en atmósfera inerte que sirve para iluminar espacios. Pronounced [bõmˈbiʝo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bombillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bõmˈbiʝo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bombillo is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bõmˈbiʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #84,633 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bombillo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 bombillo, spelled B-O-M-B-I-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objeto de vidrio que contiene un filamento incandescente por electricidad en atmósfera inerte que sirve para iluminar espacios.
- 2Objeto similar a un sifón, que se coloca en los retretes para evitar el ascenso de los olores fetidos.
- 3Bomba pequeña y portátil destinada para la lucha contra incendios.
- 4Tubo utilizado para absorbar líquidos por la boca.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #84,633 in Spanish
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