timbal
[t̪ĩmˈbal]
The verdict
“timbal” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,459 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,459
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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...
Corpus desk
Index ES-timbal · timbal · Spanish
timbal · rank #83,459 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,459
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tildaron
Nearest frequency peer: tildaron (-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 “timbal”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- thug
thug
16,546 corpus weight
- thunderbolt
thunderbolt
16,545 corpus weight
- tibial
tibial
16,544 corpus weight
- tildaron
tildaron
16,543 corpus weight
- timbal
timbal
16,542 corpus weight
- tinca
tinca
16,541 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “timbal” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “timbal” en español
Rare enough to double-check
timbal is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,459 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [t̪ĩmˈbal]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for timbal, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is timbal, spelled T-I-M-B-A-L.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how timbal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gracias a su técnica en el manejo de la percusión Tito Puente fue conocido como El Rey de los Timbales.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).