bombo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,324
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bombo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tambor de gran tamaño, usado en las bandas militares, que se toca con una maza. Pronounced [ˈbõmbo]. Often confused with boo and bono.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bombo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbõmbo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bombo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbõmbo]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,324 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for bombo, with forms such as "bbombo", "bmobo", and "bobmo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boo", "bono", "boxeo", 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 bombo, spelled B-O-M-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tambor de gran tamaño, usado en las bandas militares, que se toca con una maza.
- 2Ejecutante de dicho instrumento.
- 3Bomba que deriva su energía de la reacción nuclear de fisión o fusión.
- 4Utensilio esférico que se utiliza para realizar sorteos de una forma aleatoria, introduciendo en el mismo las bolas numeradas y con un mecanismo de giro se mezclan las bolas y al parar el aparato, mediante un mecanismo de expulsión sale la bola ganadora.
- 5Publicidad exagerada y con grandes elogios.
- 6Hinchazón del vientre ocasionado por el embarazo.
- 7Embarcación de muy poco calado, por lo cual tiene el fondo del casco plano, cuya aplicación principal es la carga y descarga entre un buque que no entra en el dique y el puerto.
- 8Construcción rural tradicional concebida especialmente para alojar en ella a pastores y labradores, junto con sus animales de labor y sus aperos de labranza.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbombo,bmobo,bobmo,bombbo,bommbo,bomob,obmbo,vomvo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bombo
Misspelling Variants of "bombo"
Frequency rank: #19,324 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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