jabalina
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#49,093
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
jabalina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Arma arrojadiza, antaño usada para la caza mayor. Pronounced [xaβ̞aˈlina]. Often confused with jabalí and jabalíes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jabalina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [xaβ̞aˈlina] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for jabalina is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xaβ̞aˈlina]. Corpus data places it at rank #49,093 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for jabalina, with forms such as "ajbalina", "jaablina", and "jabailna". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "jabalí", "jabalíes", 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 jabalina, spelled J-A-B-A-L-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arma arrojadiza, antaño usada para la caza mayor.
- 2Implemento deportivo con forma de venablo alargado. En las pruebas masculina tiene una longitud mínima de 260 cm y un peso mínimo de 800 g; en las pruebas femeninas, 220 cm. y 600 g. Tiene un asidero, fabricado con cordel, de unos 15 cm de largo que se encuentra aproximadamente en su centro de gravedad.
- 3Disciplina deportiva consistente en lanzar este dardo lo más lejos posible.
- 4Varilla metálica enterrada bajo el suelo, en donde desembocan todas las conexiones de la puesta a tierra.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajbalina,jaablina,jabailna,jabalian,jabalinna,jaballina,jabalnia,jabbalina,jablaina,javalina,jbaalina,jjabalina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jabalina
Misspelling Variants of "jabalina"
Frequency rank: #49,093 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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