íncubo
[ˈĩŋkuβ̞o]
The verdict
“íncubo” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Demonio con apariencia de varón que perturba los sueños de las personas mientras duermen, especialmente a las mujeres, para tener relaciones sexuales con ellas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-incubo · íncubo · Spanish
íncubo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Í" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | íncubo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈĩŋkuβ̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “íncubo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
íncubo is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈĩŋkuβ̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for íncubo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is íncubo, spelled Í-N-C-U-B-O.
Definition
- 1Demonio con apariencia de varón que perturba los sueños de las personas mientras duermen, especialmente a las mujeres, para tener relaciones sexuales con ellas.
- 2Género de accidente que da en sueños, con que se comprime y aprieta el corazón, soñando alguna cosa triste y melancólica.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.