carbunclo
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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0
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carbunclo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Gema de color rojo, variedad del corindón, muy utilizada en joyería. Es un aluminato de magnesio. Pronounced [kaɾˈβ̞ũŋklo].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | carbunclo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaɾˈβ̞ũŋklo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for carbunclo is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaɾˈβ̞ũŋklo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for carbunclo 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 carbunclo, spelled C-A-R-B-U-N-C-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gema de color rojo, variedad del corindón, muy utilizada en joyería. Es un aluminato de magnesio.
- 2Enfermedad que afecta a los rumiantes, al porcino y al ser humano, ocasionada por la bacteria Bacillus anthracis. Es una infección aguda, no contagiosa, que afecta a la piel, los pulmones o el tracto digestivo.
- 3Cualquiera de un par de miles de especies de coleópteros, de distribución cosmopolita, caracterizados por emitir luz de la parte inferior de su abdomen.
- 4Animal ficticio de algunas mitologías sudamericanas que emite luz y es guardián de yacimientos de metales preciosos o de tesoros.
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