comba
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,301
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
comba is aSpanishnoun. It means: Forma cóncava o convexa que toma la superficie de ciertos objetos o sólidos cuando se curvan o encorvan, como ocurre con la madera, algunas láminas de metal, etc. Pronounced [ˈkõmba]. Often confused with cómo and cosa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | comba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkõmba] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for comba is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkõmba]. Corpus data places it at rank #48,301 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 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 comba, with forms such as "ccomba", "cmoba", and "cobma". 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, "cómo", "cosa", "Cuba", 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 comba, spelled C-O-M-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forma cóncava o convexa que toma la superficie de ciertos objetos o sólidos cuando se curvan o encorvan, como ocurre con la madera, algunas láminas de metal, etc.
- 2Trayectoria curva que describe la pelota cuando se la patea de cierta forma.
- 3Juego que consiste en que uno o más participantes saltan sobre una cuerda que se hace girar de modo que pase debajo de sus pies y sobre sus cabezas.
- 4La cuerda misma con que se juega la comba₂.
- 5Cada una de las partes de un árbol que se forman cerca de la base, la tierra o las raíces.
- 6Maza de mango largo.
- 7Actividad muy cansadora o extenuante.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomba,cmoba,cobma,comab,combba,commba,comva,ocmba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for comba
Misspelling Variants of "comba"
Frequency rank: #48,301 in Spanish
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