hombre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#214
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
hombre is aSpanishnoun. It means: Individuo de la especie humana, definido como mamífero primate dotado de inteligencia, que camina en posición vertical, posee manos prensiles y un cerebro voluminoso, y se comunica por medio de un ... Pronounced [ˈõmbɾe]. It ranks #214 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with home and homer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hombre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈõmbɾe] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hombre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈõmbɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #214 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for hombre, with forms such as "hhombre", "hmobre", and "hobmre". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "home", "homer", "homme", 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 hombre, spelled H-O-M-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Individuo de la especie humana, definido como mamífero primate dotado de inteligencia, que camina en posición vertical, posee manos prensiles y un cerebro voluminoso, y se comunica por medio de un lenguaje articulado.
- 2Macho de la especie humana.
- 3Varón adulto.
- 4Miembro de fuerzas armadas.
- 5Individuo dotado de cualidades consideradas varoniles por excelencia.
- 6Esposo, marido, amante.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhombre,hmobre,hobmre,hombbre,homber,hombrre,hommbre,homrbe,homvre,ohmbre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hombre
Misspelling Variants of "hombre"
Frequency rank: #214 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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