parábola
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,105
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
parábola is aSpanishnoun. It means: Narración ficticia breve sobre un tema que pudo ocurrir realmente en la vida o la naturaleza, donde por medio de analogía o semejanza se forma una moraleja. Pronounced [paˈɾaβ̞ola]. Often confused with paralela and paradoja.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parábola |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈɾaβ̞ola] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for parábola is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈɾaβ̞ola]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,105 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for parábola, with forms such as "aprábola", "parbáola", and "parrábola". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "paralela", "paradoja", "paranoia", 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 parábola, spelled P-A-R-Á-B-O-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Narración ficticia breve sobre un tema que pudo ocurrir realmente en la vida o la naturaleza, donde por medio de analogía o semejanza se forma una moraleja.
- 2Es una sección cónica generada al cortar un cono recto con un plano paralelo a la directriz.
- 3Es la curva descrita por el conjunto de puntos que equidistan de una recta (eje o directriz) y un punto fijo llamado foco.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprábola,parbáola,parrábola,parábbola,parábloa,paráboal,parábolla,paráobla,parávola,paárbola,pparábola,praábola
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "parábola"
Frequency rank: #28,105 in Spanish
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