plomo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,478
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
plomo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Elemento químico de la tabla periódica de los elementos, con símbolo Pb y número atómico 82, un metal pesado, dúctil, maleable, poco tenaz, de color azul grisáceo, y muy tóxico. Pronounced [ˈplomo]. It ranks #7,478 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with poo and pom.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plomo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈplomo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for plomo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈplomo]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,478 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for plomo, with forms such as "lpomo", "pllomo", and "plmoo". 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, "poo", "pom", "poco", 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 plomo, spelled P-L-O-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Elemento químico de la tabla periódica de los elementos, con símbolo Pb y número atómico 82, un metal pesado, dúctil, maleable, poco tenaz, de color azul grisáceo, y muy tóxico.
- 2Pesa de plomo u otro material pesado usada para lastrar.
- 3Cosa o persona tediosa y molesta.
- 4Munición metálica para un arma de fuego.
- 5Por extensión, enfrentamiento armado en el que se emplean estas armas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpomo,pllomo,plmoo,plommo,ploom,polmo,pplomo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for plomo
Misspelling Variants of "plomo"
Frequency rank: #7,478 in Spanish
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