contrabajo
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,678
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
contrabajo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento musical de cuerda y arco, es el de mayor tamaño y sonido más grave, su figura es parecida al violín, se ejecuta de pie apoyado en el suelo. Puede tocarse frotando las cuerdas con el arc... Pronounced [kõn̪t̪ɾaˈβ̞axo]. Often confused with contrajo and contratado.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | contrabajo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪ɾaˈβ̞axo] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #47,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for contrabajo is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõn̪t̪ɾaˈβ̞axo]. Corpus data places it at rank #47,678 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for contrabajo, with forms such as "ccontrabajo", "cnotrabajo", and "conntrabajo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "contrajo", "contratado", "contrabando", 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 contrabajo, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-B-A-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento musical de cuerda y arco, es el de mayor tamaño y sonido más grave, su figura es parecida al violín, se ejecuta de pie apoyado en el suelo. Puede tocarse frotando las cuerdas con el arco o bien pulsando las cuerdas con los dedos.
- 2Músico que toca este instrumento
- 3Persona cuya voz alcanza un registro más grave que la del bajo ordinario
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccontrabajo,cnotrabajo,conntrabajo,conrtabajo,contarbajo,contraabjo,contrabajjo,contrabaoj,contrabbajo,contrabjao,contravajo,contrbaajo,contrrabajo,conttrabajo,cotnrabajo,ocntrabajo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for contrabajo
Misspelling Variants of "contrabajo"
Frequency rank: #47,678 in Spanish
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