sambuca
Letters
7 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
sambuca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Antiguo instrumento músico de cuerda, semejante al arpa. Pronounced [sãmˈbuka].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sambuca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sãmˈbuka] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sambuca is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sãmˈbuka]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for sambuca in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 sambuca, spelled S-A-M-B-U-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Antiguo instrumento músico de cuerda, semejante al arpa.
- 2Máquina antigua de guerra, formada por una armazón de maderos y una plataforma giratoria en ellos, que subía y bajaba con cuerdas, para caer como puente sobre los muros de una ciudad y facilitar el asalto.
- 3Licor dulce y fuerte basado en el anís, típico de Italia y más concretamente de Lacio.
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