rubor
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,620
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rubor is aSpanishnoun. It means: Color rojo muy subido y brillante Pronounced [ruˈβ̞oɾ]. Often confused with ruso and rudo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rubor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ruˈβ̞oɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for rubor is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ruˈβ̞oɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #41,620 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 rubor, with forms such as "rbuor", "rrubor", and "rubbor". 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, "ruso", "rudo", "rufo", 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 rubor, spelled R-U-B-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Color rojo muy subido y brillante
- 2Por extensión, enrojecimiento visible del rostro que hace patente una emoción como la vergüenza
- 3Por extensión, sentimiento de turbación causado por sentir culpa, humillación o deshonra, que se expresa típicamente mediante el rubor₂
- 4Cosmético usado para dar color y brillo a las mejillas
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rbuor,rrubor,rubbor,ruborr,ruobr,ruvor,urbor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rubor
Misspelling Variants of "rubor"
Frequency rank: #41,620 in Spanish
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