limbo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,890
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
limbo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Estado o lugar permanente de los no bautizados que mueren a corta edad sin haber cometido ningún pecado personal, pero sin haberse visto librados del pecado original por el bautismo. Pronounced [ˈlĩmbo]. Often confused with lio and lobo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | limbo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlĩmbo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for limbo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlĩmbo]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,890 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for limbo, with forms such as "ilmbo", "libmo", and "limbbo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lio", "lobo", "lomo", 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 limbo, spelled L-I-M-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Estado o lugar permanente de los no bautizados que mueren a corta edad sin haber cometido ningún pecado personal, pero sin haberse visto librados del pecado original por el bautismo.
- 2Lugar temporal de las almas de los buenos creyentes que han muerto antes de la resurrección de Jesús.
- 3Borde de una cosa, y con especialidad orla o extremidad de la vestidura.
- 4Borde más externo del disco de un astro.
- 5Estado ambiguo, intermedio o de no resolución en el que queda trabado un proceso, generalmente burocrático.
- 6Zona en una memoria, volumen o espacio de almacenamiento a donde se envían los archivos borrados.
- 7Lugar aislado del resto del mundo.
- 8Disco con escala graduada, tanto vertical como horizontal, que se usa para medir ángulos.
- 9Lámina que comúnmente forma parte de la anatomía de una hoja
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilmbo,libmo,limbbo,limmbo,limob,limvo,llimbo,lmibo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "limbo"
Frequency rank: #15,890 in Spanish
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