broma
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,864
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
broma is aSpanishnoun. It means: Molusco pequeño que perfora la madera del casco de las embarcaciones con sus valvas facilitando su putrefacción por el agua. A partir del siglo XVII se utilizan planchas de cobre forrando los casco... Pronounced [ˈbɾoma]. It ranks #2,864 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with brown and bruja.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | broma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɾoma] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for broma is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbɾoma]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,864 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 broma, with forms such as "bbroma", "borma", and "brmoa". 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, "brown", "bruja", "brote", 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 broma, spelled B-R-O-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Molusco pequeño que perfora la madera del casco de las embarcaciones con sus valvas facilitando su putrefacción por el agua. A partir del siglo XVII se utilizan planchas de cobre forrando los cascos para impedirlo.
- 2Pequeño engaño sin mala intención, cuyo objetivo es producir risa.
- 3Bulla, algazara, chanza.
- 4Eufemismo por vaina (cosa desconocida o irrelevante).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbroma,borma,brmoa,broam,bromma,brroma,rboma,vroma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for broma
Misspelling Variants of "broma"
Frequency rank: #2,864 in Spanish
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