timbal
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#83,459
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
timbal is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento musical de percusión que se toca con dos palos de madera. El timbal consiste de una caja de resonancia cilindrica de entre treinta y cuarenta centimetros de diametro sobre la cual se te... Pronounced [t̪ĩmˈbal].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | timbal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪ĩmˈbal] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for timbal is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪ĩmˈbal]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,459 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for timbal in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 timbal, spelled T-I-M-B-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento musical de percusión que se toca con dos palos de madera. El timbal consiste de una caja de resonancia cilindrica de entre treinta y cuarenta centimetros de diametro sobre la cual se tensiona una membrana. Usualmente los timbales se utilizan en pares con un timbal mas grande que el otro.
- 2En ciertos lugares un timbal se refiere a un tímpano.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #83,459 in Spanish
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