sobre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#47
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
sobre is aSpanishprep. It means: En la parte superior de algo. Pronounced [ˈsoβ̞ɾe]. It ranks #47 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with sube and some.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sobre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | [ˈsoβ̞ɾe] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sobre is 5 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsoβ̞ɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #47 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 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 sobre, with forms such as "osbre", "sbore", and "sobbre". 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, "sube", "some", "sole", 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 sobre, spelled S-O-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En la parte superior de algo.
- 2Por encima de.
- 3En torno a algo.
- 4Agregado o añadido.
- 5Precedida y seguida de un mismo sustantivo, denota idea de reiteración o acumulación.
- 6Con superioridad y dominio.
- 7Referido al tiempo, indica que se está cerca de un momento determinado.
- 8En prenda de.
- 9Se usa para denotar la finca o fondo que tiene afecta una carga o gravamen.
- 10Más o menos.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osbre,sbore,sobbre,sober,sobrre,sorbe,sovre,ssobre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sobre
Misspelling Variants of "sobre"
Frequency rank: #47 in Spanish
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