tamborino

/[t̪ãmboˈɾino]/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tamborino is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tambor pequeño que, colgado usualmente del brazo izquierdo, se toca con un solo palillo o baqueta, y, acompañando por lo común al pito, se usa en las danzas populares. Pronounced [t̪ãmboˈɾino].

Key facts for tamborino
PropertyValue
Headwordtamborino
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[t̪ãmboˈɾino]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tamborino is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for tamborino is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪ãmboˈɾino]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tambor pequeño que, colgado usualmente del brazo izquierdo, se toca con un solo palillo o baqueta, y, acompañando por lo común al pito, se usa en las danzas populares.".

No misspelling variants are generated for tamborino 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 tamborino, spelled T-A-M-B-O-R-I-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tambor pequeño que, colgado usualmente del brazo izquierdo, se toca con un solo palillo o baqueta, y, acompañando por lo común al pito, se usa en las danzas populares.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tamborino"?
"tamborino" is spelled T-A-M-B-O-R-I-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪ãmboˈɾino].
What does "tamborino" mean?
As a noun, "tamborino" means: Tambor pequeño que, colgado usualmente del brazo izquierdo, se toca con un solo palillo o baqueta, y, acompañando por lo común al pito, se usa en las danzas populares.
How do you pronounce "tamborino"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tamborino" is [t̪ãmboˈɾino]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tamborino" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.