timbre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,739
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
timbre is aSpanishnoun. It means: Aparato mecánico o eléctrico que produce sonido al pulsarlo, sirviendo como llamador. Pronounced [ˈt̪ĩmbɾe]. It ranks #9,739 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with time and tiré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | timbre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ĩmbɾe] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for timbre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ĩmbɾe]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,739 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for timbre, with forms such as "itmbre", "tibmre", and "timbbre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "time", "tiré", "títere", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 timbre, spelled T-I-M-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aparato mecánico o eléctrico que produce sonido al pulsarlo, sirviendo como llamador.
- 2Pieza de papel, lacre u otro material, estampada con un sello oficial, que se emplea para indicar la validez de un documento.
- 3En particular, timbre que indica el pago de un derecho al fisco.
- 4En particular, timbre que indica el franqueo de una carta o paquete.
- 5Renta que percibe el fisco por la venta de timbres₂.
- 6Calidad distintiva del sonido y especialmente de la voz, independiente del tono y el volumen.
- 7Distintivo que remata la parte superior de un blasón, indicando la calidad de su poseedor.
- 8Placa que se coloca sobre una máquina para indicar la presión máxima admisible.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itmbre,tibmre,timbbre,timber,timbrre,timmbre,timrbe,timvre,tmibre,ttimbre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for timbre
Misspelling Variants of "timbre"
Frequency rank: #9,739 in Spanish
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