retablo
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,377
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
retablo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Obra artística que en las iglesias expone y ordena las imágenes de culto, ubicado detrás de la mesa del altar. Desde el siglo XIII adquirió formas arquitectónicas, coincidiendo en sus elementos com... Pronounced [reˈt̪aβ̞lo]. Often confused with retardo and retablos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | retablo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reˈt̪aβ̞lo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for retablo is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reˈt̪aβ̞lo]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,377 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for retablo, with forms such as "ertablo", "reatblo", and "retabblo". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "retardo", "retablos", "regalo", 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 retablo, spelled R-E-T-A-B-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Obra artística que en las iglesias expone y ordena las imágenes de culto, ubicado detrás de la mesa del altar. Desde el siglo XIII adquirió formas arquitectónicas, coincidiendo en sus elementos compositivos y características ornamentales con el desarrollo de la arquitectura.
- 2Cualquier representación de una escena o suceso mediante una colección de pinturas o esculturas.
- 3Escenario pequeño para representar acciones con títeres, marionetas o figuras de reducido tamaño.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ertablo,reatblo,retabblo,retabllo,retabol,retalbo,retavlo,retbalo,rettablo,rretablo,rteablo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for retablo
Misspelling Variants of "retablo"
Frequency rank: #18,377 in Spanish
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