marimba
[maˈɾĩmba]
The verdict
“marimba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,382 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,382
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrumento de percusión, un idiófono, de forma parecida al xilófono. Consiste en un paralelepípedo de madera con una boca superior cuadrangular recogida por los bordes y que ensancha en la parte s...
Corpus desk
Index ES-marimba · marimba · Spanish
marimba · rank #52,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,382
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH marital
Nearest frequency peer: marital (+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 “marimba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- magnicidio
magnicidio
47,624 corpus weight
- maleficio
maleficio
47,622 corpus weight
- marimba
marimba
47,619 corpus weight
- marital
marital
47,618 corpus weight
- mascarada
mascarada
47,616 corpus weight
- materializa…
materializado
47,614 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “marimba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marimba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈɾĩmba] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “marimba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
marimba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,382 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [maˈɾĩmba]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrumento de percusión, un idiófono, de forma parecida al xilófono. Consiste en un paralelepípedo de madera con una boca superior cuadrangular recogida por los bordes y que ensancha en la parte s...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for marimba, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is marimba, spelled M-A-R-I-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1Instrumento de percusión, un idiófono, de forma parecida al xilófono. Consiste en un paralelepípedo de madera con una boca superior cuadrangular recogida por los bordes y que ensancha en la parte superior y se estrecha en la parte inferior hasta cerrarse en forma piramidal. Posee una serie de tablas delgadas (lengüetas sonoras) de distintos tamaños, dispuestas de mayor a menor, excavadas por la parte inferior. Estas lengüetas tienen perforaciones en sus extremos, y por esos orificios se atan con cordones que las sostienen suspendidas de clavijas verticales, fijas en un armazón trapezoidal. Cada tecla tiene su propia caja de resonancia.
This word in other languages
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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