criba
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#56,217
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
criba is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuero ordenadamente agujereado y fijo en un aro de madera, que sirve para cribar. También se hacen de plancha metálica con agujeros, o con red de malla de alambre. Pronounced [ˈkɾiβ̞a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɾiβ̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for criba is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkɾiβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,217 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for criba in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 criba, spelled C-R-I-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cuero ordenadamente agujereado y fijo en un aro de madera, que sirve para cribar. También se hacen de plancha metálica con agujeros, o con red de malla de alambre.
- 2Cualquiera de los aparatos mecánicos que se emplean en agricultura para cribar semillas, o en minería para lavar y limpiar los minerales.
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #56,217 in Spanish
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