traba
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,231
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
traba is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o resultado de trabar o triscar. Pronounced [ˈt̪ɾaβ̞a]. Often confused with tras and trae.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | traba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ɾaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for traba is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ɾaβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,231 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for traba, with forms such as "rtaba", "tarba", and "traab". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tras", "trae", "trap", 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 traba, spelled T-R-A-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o resultado de trabar o triscar.
- 2Dificultad u obstáculo; cualquier cosa que impide o estorba la fácil ejecución de otra.
- 3Instrumento con que se junta, une y sujeta una cosa con otra.
- 4Ligadura con que se atan, por las cuartillas, las manos o los pies de una caballería.
- 5Tabla o palo que se ata a los cuernos de una res vacuna para impedir que entre en sitios donde pueda hacer daño.
- 6Cada una de las dos cuerdas que se ponen a las caballerías del pie a la mano de cada lado para acostumbrarlas al paso de andadura.
- 7Cada uno de los dos palos delanteros de la red de cazar palomas.
- 8Pedazo de paño que une las dos partes del escapulario de ciertos hábitos monásticos.
- 9Piedra o cuña con que se calzan las ruedas de un carro.
- 10Embargo de bienes, incluso derechos, o impedimento para disponer de ellos o para algún acto.
- 11Palo que asegura el frente del arca dentro de la cual se mueve la piedra de la tahona.
- 12Zancadilla (derribo que se hace trabando la pierna propia con la de otro).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtaba,tarba,traab,trabba,trava,trbaa,trraba,ttraba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for traba
Misspelling Variants of "traba"
Frequency rank: #16,231 in Spanish
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