cobre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,312
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cobre is aSpanishnoun. It means: Elemento químico, metálico y sólido, de número atómico 29 y símbolo Cu. Es un metal de color rojizo brillante, que se cubre de una leve capa de óxido negruzco al aire; es uno de los mejores conduct... Pronounced [ˈkoβ̞ɾe]. It ranks #4,312 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cor and come.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cobre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkoβ̞ɾe] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cobre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkoβ̞ɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,312 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 cobre, with forms such as "cbore", "ccobre", and "cobbre". 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, "cor", "come", "Coro", 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 cobre, spelled C-O-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Elemento químico, metálico y sólido, de número atómico 29 y símbolo Cu. Es un metal de color rojizo brillante, que se cubre de una leve capa de óxido negruzco al aire; es uno de los mejores conductores de la electricidad, después del oro y la plata.
- 2Objeto cualquiera hecho de cobre₁.
- 3En particular, conjunto de utensilios de cocina hechos de cobre₁.
- 4En particular, moneda de cobre₁.
- 5En particular, instrumento musical de viento elaborado en cobre₁.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cbore,ccobre,cobbre,cober,cobrre,corbe,covre,ocbre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cobre
Misspelling Variants of "cobre"
Frequency rank: #4,312 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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