Ebla

/[ˈeβ̞la]/ name

Letters

4 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Ebla is aSpanishname. It means: Ciudad de la Antigüedad en Siria, ubicada en donde hoy se encuentra Tell Mardikh. Pronounced [ˈeβ̞la].

Key facts for Ebla
PropertyValue
HeadwordEbla
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA[ˈeβ̞la]
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Ebla is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Ebla is 4 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈeβ̞la]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ciudad de la Antigüedad en Siria, ubicada en donde hoy se encuentra Tell Mardikh.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Ebla in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 Ebla, spelled E-B-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Ciudad de la Antigüedad en Siria, ubicada en donde hoy se encuentra Tell Mardikh.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Ebla"?
"Ebla" is spelled E-B-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈeβ̞la].
What does "Ebla" mean?
As a name, "Ebla" means: Ciudad de la Antigüedad en Siria, ubicada en donde hoy se encuentra Tell Mardikh.
How do you pronounce "Ebla"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Ebla" is [ˈeβ̞la]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Ebla" come from?
"Ebla" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.