ceiba
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,695
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ceiba is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Ceiba). Árbol americano, de la familia de las malváceas, de unos 30 metros de altura, con tronco grueso color ceniciento, copa extensa casi horizontal, ramas rojizas y espinosas, hojas palmeadas, ... Pronounced [ˈsejβ̞a]. Often confused with cía and Cuba.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ceiba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsejβ̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #31,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ceiba is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsejβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #31,695 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 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 ceiba, with forms such as "cceiba", "cebia", and "ceiab". 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, "cía", "Cuba", "cita", 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 ceiba, spelled C-E-I-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Ceiba). Árbol americano, de la familia de las malváceas, de unos 30 metros de altura, con tronco grueso color ceniciento, copa extensa casi horizontal, ramas rojizas y espinosas, hojas palmeadas, flores rojas axilares, y frutos cónicos. Con su madera se fabrica celulosa y piezas como adoquines para suelo de las calles; con la fibra algodonosa de sus frutos se rellenan almhoadas.
- 2(Erythrina). Árbol tropical.^([cita requerida])
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cceiba,cebia,ceiab,ceibba,ceiva,cieba,eciba,seiba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "ceiba"
Frequency rank: #31,695 in Spanish
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