nombrar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,570
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
nombrar is aSpanishverb. It means: Dar nombre a una persona, animal o cosa. Pronounced [nõmˈbɾaɾ]. It ranks #6,570 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with nombre and nombro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nombrar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [nõmˈbɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for nombrar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [nõmˈbɾaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,570 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for nombrar, with forms such as "nmobrar", "nnombrar", and "nobmrar". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "nombre", "nombro", "nombres", 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 nombrar, spelled N-O-M-B-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dar nombre a una persona, animal o cosa.
- 2Decir o hacer mención del nombre de alguien o de algo.
- 3Escoger a alguien para que ocupe un empleo, cargo o misión.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nmobrar,nnombrar,nobmrar,nombarr,nombbrar,nombrarr,nombrra,nombrrar,nommbrar,nomrbar,nomvrar,onmbrar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for nombrar
Misspelling Variants of "nombrar"
Frequency rank: #6,570 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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