mamba
[ˈmãmba]
The verdict
“mamba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #85,033 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,033
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Dentroaspis) Cualquiera de las víboras venenosas del género Dentroaspis. Son oriundas del África y viven entre los árboles.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mamba · mamba · Spanish
mamba · rank #85,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,033
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mamario
Nearest frequency peer: mamario (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “mamba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- malévolos
malévolos
14,970 corpus weight
- mamario
mamario
14,969 corpus weight
- mamba
mamba
14,968 corpus weight
- mancillado
mancillado
14,967 corpus weight
- manifestadas
manifestadas
14,964 corpus weight
- Manquehue
Manquehue
14,963 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “mamba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mamba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmãmba] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “mamba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
mamba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #85,033 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmãmba]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Dentroaspis) Cualquiera de las víboras venenosas del género Dentroaspis. Son oriundas del África y viven entre los árboles.".
Zero misspellings are on record for mamba in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is mamba, spelled M-A-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1(Dentroaspis) Cualquiera de las víboras venenosas del género Dentroaspis. Son oriundas del África y viven entre los árboles.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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