timbal
[t̪ĩmˈbal]
The verdict
“timbal” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #83,459 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #83,459
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| 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) |
Where “timbal” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for timbal is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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.
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.
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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Using “timbal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-I-M-B-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪ĩmˈbal] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.