cebolla
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,520
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
cebolla is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Allium cepa) Hierba bulbosa de la familia de las Aliáceas, cultivada casi universalmente para su empleo en gastronomía; se consume principalmente el bulbo. Las hojas son tubulares, basales, forman... Pronounced [seˈβ̞oʝa]. It ranks #7,520 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with criolla and cebollas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cebolla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [seˈβ̞oʝa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cebolla is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [seˈβ̞oʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,520 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for cebolla, with forms such as "cbeolla", "ccebolla", and "cebbolla". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "criolla", "cebollas", 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 cebolla, spelled C-E-B-O-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Allium cepa) Hierba bulbosa de la familia de las Aliáceas, cultivada casi universalmente para su empleo en gastronomía; se consume principalmente el bulbo. Las hojas son tubulares, basales, formando una roseta erecta o dispersa que brota de los bulbos subterráneos, y alcanzan los 65 cm de altura; son de color verde oscuro, glabras. Presenta también uno o más tallos florales, más erectos y largos que las hojas adyacentes. Carecen por lo general de hojas, aunque pueden poseer un par, caulinas; en su ápice brota una umbela esferoidal, raramente poblada de flores pediceladas.
- 2Bulbo de esta planta, consumido crudo o cocido como parte de innumerables preparaciones gastronómicas. Es blanco por lo general —aunque existen variedades rosadas o rojizas—, aproximadamente esferoidal, y está protegido por una fina piel cartácea de color pardo o blanco. Posee un sabor y olor fuerte, debido a la alicina, que se suaviza con la cocción.
- 3Por extensión, varias otras plantas del género Allium.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cbeolla,ccebolla,cebbolla,ceblola,cebola,cebolal,ceoblla,cevolla,ecbolla,sebolla
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Misspelling Variants of "cebolla"
Frequency rank: #7,520 in Spanish
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