hombrera
The verdict
“hombrera” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pieza de la armadura antigua, que cubría y defendía los hombros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hombrera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [õmˈbɾeɾa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hombrera” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for hombrera is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [õmˈbɾeɾa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for hombrera 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 hombrera, spelled H-O-M-B-R-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pieza de la armadura antigua, que cubría y defendía los hombros.
- 2Labor o adorno especial de los vestidos en la parte correspondiente a los hombros.
- 3Cordón, franja o pieza de paño en forma de almohadilla que, sobrepuesta a los hombros en el uniforme militar, sirve de defensa, adorno y sujeción de correas y cordones del vestuario, y a veces como insignia del empleo personal jerárquico.
- 4Almohadilla que se pone en algunas prendas de vestir, en la zona de los hombros, para que estos parezcan más anchos.
- 5Tirante.
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Using “hombrera”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-O-M-B-R-E-R-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [õmˈbɾeɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby Spanish words
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