roble
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,001
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
roble is aSpanishnoun. It means: Árboles europeos del género Quercus de hojas blandas, de borde sinuoso, caducas, propias de climas templados oceánicos; o bien de variantes frescas, por altitud, del clima mediterráneo. Pronounced [ˈroβ̞le]. Often confused with rol and roe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roble |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈroβ̞le] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for roble is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈroβ̞le]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,001 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for roble, with forms such as "orble", "rbole", and "robble". 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, "rol", "roe", "robo", 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 roble, spelled R-O-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Árboles europeos del género Quercus de hojas blandas, de borde sinuoso, caducas, propias de climas templados oceánicos; o bien de variantes frescas, por altitud, del clima mediterráneo.
- 2( Quercus robur L.) Árbol de la familia de las Fagáceas de hasta 35 metros de altura, común en España, se le halla en Europa hasta los Urales. El fruto es una bellota. La madera es muy apreciada y utilizada con los más diversos fines: barcos, pilotes, tornería, carpintería, toneles, traviesas de ferrocarril. También tiene uso ornamental.
- 3(Nothofagus dombeyi) Árbol siempre verde, frondoso, de corteza gris y con ramas aplanadas horizontalmente que le dan un aspecto característico.
- 4(Nothofagus obliqua) Árbol deciduo de los bosques de Chile y Argentina. Crece en suelos profundos y habitualmente a baja altitud. Sus hojas son alternas con ondulaciones entre la nervadura y el borde aserrado, sus flores tienen sexos separados y son poco llamativas. Su madera es apreciada para construir postes.
- 5Persona o cosa fuerte y resistente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orble,rbole,robble,robel,roblle,rolbe,rovle,rroble
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "roble"
Frequency rank: #14,001 in Spanish
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