globo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,966
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
globo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuerpo esférico. Pronounced [ˈgloβ̞o]. It ranks #5,966 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with gozo and Goyo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | globo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgloβ̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for globo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈgloβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,966 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 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 globo, with forms such as "gglobo", "glboo", and "gllobo". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "gozo", "Goyo", "groso", 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 globo, spelled G-L-O-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cuerpo esférico.
- 2Mundo en el que vivimos, tercer planeta del sistema solar.
- 3Vehículo para moverse por el aire, que consta de una bolsa llena de un gas más ligero que el aire, y de un canasto o barquilla que pende de ella.
- 4Juguete para niños que consiste en una especie de bolsa cerrada de un material delgado y elástico que se llena con aire o helio e infla por una abertura.
- 5Objeto de forma esférica de cristal u otro material translúcido que se pone sobre una luz para atenuarla o suavizarla.
- 6Pelota muy alta enviada generalmente con la intención de hacerla caer detrás del rival.
- 7En las historietas, caricaturas o comics, figura que encierra las palabras que el personaje dice y que parece salir de su boca.
- 8Falsedad, palabras falsas o engañosas que no corresponden a la verdad.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: gglobo,glboo,gllobo,globbo,gloob,glovo,golbo,lgobo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for globo
Misspelling Variants of "globo"
Frequency rank: #5,966 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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