marimba
The verdict
“marimba” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #52,382 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #52,382
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: 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...
| 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) |
Where “marimba” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for marimba is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈɾĩmba]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,382 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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...".
No misspelling variants are generated for marimba in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 marimba, spelled M-A-R-I-M-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Frequency rank: #52,382 in Spanish
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Using “marimba”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-R-I-M-B-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [maˈɾĩmba] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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