carabina
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,986
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
carabina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fusil corto y ligero, que empleaban antiguamente los soldados de caballería, y hoy las tropas que requieren practicidad antes que precisión o poder de fuego Pronounced [kaɾaˈβ̞ina]. Often confused with carina and Carolina.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carabina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaɾaˈβ̞ina] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for carabina is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaɾaˈβ̞ina]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,986 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for carabina, with forms such as "acrabina", "caarbina", and "carabbina". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "carina", "Carolina", "Catalina", 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 carabina, spelled C-A-R-A-B-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fusil corto y ligero, que empleaban antiguamente los soldados de caballería, y hoy las tropas que requieren practicidad antes que precisión o poder de fuego
- 2Dama de compañía que acompañaba a las señoritas de sociedad para evitar que quedaran a solas con un hombre
- 3Por extensión, persona cualquiera que acompaña a una pareja para evitar situaciones de excesiva intimidad
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acrabina,caarbina,carabbina,carabian,carabinna,carabnia,caraibna,caravina,carbaina,carrabina,ccarabina,craabina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for carabina
Misspelling Variants of "carabina"
Frequency rank: #33,986 in Spanish
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