sombrero
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,892
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
sombrero is aSpanishnoun. It means: Prenda de vestir que protege y adorna la cabeza Pronounced [sõmˈbɾeɾo]. It ranks #5,892 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with sombrío and sombreros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sombrero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sõmˈbɾeɾo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for sombrero is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sõmˈbɾeɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,892 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sombrero, with forms such as "osmbrero", "smobrero", and "sobmrero". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sombrío", "sombreros", 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 sombrero, spelled S-O-M-B-R-E-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prenda de vestir que protege y adorna la cabeza
- 2En particular, sombrero₁ de material rígido y dotado de ala
- 3Por extensión, privilegio concedido a algunos nobles de permanecer con la cabeza cubierta frente al monarca
- 4Techo de un púlpito
- 5Pieza circular que remata la parte superior del cabrestante, en donde van las bocabarras
- 6Más generalmente, remate superior de las piezas mecánicas
- 7Parte redonda y extendida de las setas, que va sobre el pie
- 8Por extensión, cosa cualquiera cuya forma recuerda a un sombrero₁
- 9Capa de hollejos y otros restos sólidos que sobrenadan el mosto durante la fermentación
- 10Gratificación que además del flete se da al capitán de un buque mercante que trasporta o carga géneros a su bordo.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: osmbrero,smobrero,sobmrero,sombbrero,somberro,sombreor,sombrerro,sombrreo,sombrrero,sommbrero,somrbero,somvrero,ssombrero
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sombrero
Misspelling Variants of "sombrero"
Frequency rank: #5,892 in Spanish
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