timba
[ˈt̪ĩmba]
The verdict
“timba” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #71,496 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,496
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conjunto de los juegos de azar, especialmente aquellos que implican apuestas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-timba · timba · Spanish
timba · rank #71,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,496
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tima
Nearest frequency peer: tima (-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 “timba”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- temieron
temieron
28,512 corpus weight
- Tepeyac
Tepeyac
28,511 corpus weight
- tima
tima
28,506 corpus weight
- timba
timba
28,505 corpus weight
- titulan
titulan
28,504 corpus weight
- todopoderosa
todopoderosa
28,501 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “timba” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | timba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ĩmba] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “timba” en español
Rare enough to double-check
timba is uncommon Spanish at frequency #71,496 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt̪ĩmba]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for timba in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is timba, spelled T-I-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de los juegos de azar, especialmente aquellos que implican apuestas.
- 2Barriga, estómago prominente.
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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