sibila
[siˈβ̞ila]
The verdict
“sibila” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,296 among 4,169 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,296
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mujer sabia a quien se le atribuían dones para la profecía.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sibila · sibila · Spanish
sibila · rank #67,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,296
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH shirt
Nearest frequency peer: shirt (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “sibila”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- sharing
sharing
32,709 corpus weight
- ships
ships
32,707 corpus weight
- shirt
shirt
32,706 corpus weight
- sibila
sibila
32,705 corpus weight
- sicilianos
sicilianos
32,704 corpus weight
- simbionte
simbionte
32,703 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “sibila” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sibila |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siˈβ̞ila] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “sibila” en español
Rare enough to double-check
sibila is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,296 among 4,169 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [siˈβ̞ila]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mujer sabia a quien se le atribuían dones para la profecía.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sibila, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is sibila, spelled S-I-B-I-L-A.
Definition
- 1Mujer sabia a quien se le atribuían dones para la profecía.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sibila appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El historiador Josefo cita una obra de la sibila, donde se hablaba de la torre de Babel y de la confusion de las lenguas sobre poco mas ó ménos como en el Génesis.
Aunque la sibila hable con los labios y diga cosas ni graciosas ni muy bellas ni ungidas, por virtud del Dios su voz resuena miles y miles de años.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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