ombre

/[ˈõmbɾe]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#60,218

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ombre is aSpanishnoun. It means: Grafía obsoleta de hombre. Pronounced [ˈõmbɾe].

Key facts for ombre
PropertyValue
Headwordombre
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈõmbɾe]
Letters5
Frequency rank#60,218
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ombre in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ombre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈõmbɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,218 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Grafía obsoleta de hombre.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ombre in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 ombre, spelled O-M-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grafía obsoleta de hombre.

Frequency rank: #60,218 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ombre"?
"ombre" is spelled O-M-B-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈõmbɾe].
What does "ombre" mean?
As a noun, "ombre" means: Grafía obsoleta de hombre.
How do you pronounce "ombre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ombre" is [ˈõmbɾe]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ombre" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.