joroba
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,158
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
joroba is aSpanishnoun. It means: Protuberancia simple, formada por tejido graso, que tiene en el lomo el dromedario y, doble, el camello. Pronounced [xoˈɾoβ̞a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | joroba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [xoˈɾoβ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for joroba is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xoˈɾoβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #57,158 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for joroba in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 joroba, spelled J-O-R-O-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Protuberancia simple, formada por tejido graso, que tiene en el lomo el dromedario y, doble, el camello.
- 2Abultamiento del pecho y el dorso producto de una malformación de las costillas o de la columna vertebral.
- 3Por extensión, cualquier protuberancia o abultamiento.
- 4Acción inconveniente y molesta. ^([cita requerida]).
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #57,158 in Spanish
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