torre de Babel
[ˈt̪ore ð̞e β̞aˈβ̞el]
The verdict
“torre de Babel” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Torre descrita en la Biblia, que los descendientes de Noé quisieron construir en la vega de Sennaat,para que la cumbre llegara al cielo y darles fama eterna a sus constructores. Dios, para evitar e...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | torre de Babel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ore ð̞e β̞aˈβ̞el] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “torre de Babel” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for torre de Babel is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ore ð̞e β̞aˈβ̞el]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Torre descrita en la Biblia, que los descendientes de Noé quisieron construir en la vega de Sennaat,para que la cumbre llegara al cielo y darles fama eterna a sus constructores. Dios, para evitar e...".
No misspelling variants are generated for torre de Babel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 torre de Babel, spelled T-O-R-R-E- -D-E- -B-A-B-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Torre descrita en la Biblia, que los descendientes de Noé quisieron construir en la vega de Sennaat,para que la cumbre llegara al cielo y darles fama eterna a sus constructores. Dios, para evitar el éxito de la edificación, hizo que los constructores comenzasen a hablar diferentes idiomas y se dispersaron por toda la Tierra.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-O-R-R-E- -D-E- -B-A-B-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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