enebro
[eˈneβ̞ɾo]
The verdict
“enebro” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #66,114 among 101,141 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,114
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 101,141
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Juniperus thurifera) El enebro de incienso es un árbol que llega a alcanzar los 20 metros de altura, aunque debido a condiciones desfavorables consigue a duras penas la talla de un arbusto. Su cop...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enebro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eˈneβ̞ɾo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “enebro” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
enebro is uncommon Spanish at frequency #66,114 among 101,141 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [eˈneβ̞ɾo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for enebro, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is enebro, spelled E-N-E-B-R-O.
Definition
- 1(Juniperus thurifera) El enebro de incienso es un árbol que llega a alcanzar los 20 metros de altura, aunque debido a condiciones desfavorables consigue a duras penas la talla de un arbusto. Su copa es densa, de lejos negruzca, y sus hojas son escamosas como las del ciprés, pinchudas en los árboles jovenes. Sus azuladas bayas están cubiertas de una especie de cera. Maduran en el otoño del año siguiente. Los producen los ejemplares femeninos.
- 2(Juniperus oxycedrus) El enebro de la miera es un arbusto de hojas aciculares en forma de espada, que tienen dos bandas blancas con una verde en el haz.
- 3(Juniperus communis) El enebro común es un arbusto de copa densa, con un aspecto muy variable, de cónico a semiesférico o rastrero. Hojas aciculares, verdes y en el haz una banda blanca. El fruto una arcéstida es de color azulado negruzco.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “enebro”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-N-E-B-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.