sombra
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,216
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
sombra is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ausencia de luz. Pronounced [ˈsõmbɾa]. It ranks #3,216 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with Sonora and Somoza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sombra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsõmbɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sombra is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsõmbɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,216 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for sombra, with forms such as "osmbra", "smobra", and "sobmra". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Sonora", "Somoza", "sonará", 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 sombra, spelled S-O-M-B-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ausencia de luz.
- 2En particular, sombra₁ causada por el bloqueo de la luz por un cuerpo opaco.
- 3Por analogía, bloqueo de una señal de radio u otra similar por un cuerpo opaco a su longitud de onda.
- 4Espacio que se encuentra a la sombra _(1–3).
- 5Por analogía, ausencia de comprensión y entendimiento.
- 6Evidencia que permite inferir la existencia de otra cosa.
- 7Imagen espectral de un difunto.
- 8Desconocimiento en que se encuentra alguien por verse escondido por la fama o renombre de otro.
- 9Cuidado y atención que brinda una figura protectora.
- 10Falta en la perfección o acabamiento de algo.
- 11Parte de una pintura representada en sombras₁ para dar volumen a la imagen.
- 12Persona que sigue insistentemente a otra.
- 13Sustancia oscura que se aplica al párpado superior como maquillaje.
- 14Lado del ruedo que queda a la sombra₁ durante la lidia.
- 15Hoja de papel con renglones, que se coloca debajo de otra de papel de carta sin marcar para guiarse por aquellos al escribir.
- 16Tribunal que administra justicia.
- 17Cárcel.
- 18En una vela japonesa, el segmento más externo que indica, para un determinado período, los valores máximos y mínimos que se alcanzaron para las acciones de un determinado mercado.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osmbra,smobra,sobmra,sombar,sombbra,sombrra,sommbra,somrba,somvra,ssombra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sombra
Misspelling Variants of "sombra"
Frequency rank: #3,216 in Spanish
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