nube
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,207
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
nube is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vapor de agua suspendido en la atmósfera, cuya condensación se precipita como lluvia, granizo o nieve. Pronounced [ˈnuβ̞e]. It ranks #6,207 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with num and nue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nube |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnuβ̞e] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for nube is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnuβ̞e]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,207 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 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for nube, with forms such as "nbue", "nnube", and "nubbe". 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, "num", "nue", "nun", 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 nube, spelled N-U-B-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vapor de agua suspendido en la atmósfera, cuya condensación se precipita como lluvia, granizo o nieve.
- 2Mancha de aspecto lechoso que aparece en la córnea, causada principalmente por el proceso de cicatrización.
- 3Cualquier elemento formado por pequeñas partículas presentado en forma de nube₁.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nbue,nnube,nubbe,nueb,nuve,unbe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "nube"
Frequency rank: #6,207 in Spanish
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