tribu
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,903
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
tribu is aSpanishnoun. It means: Grupo social formado por varias familias que reclaman una ascendencia común, en especial aquellas que manifiestan estructura social pero no instituciones. Pronounced [ˈt̪ɾiβ̞u]. It ranks #5,903 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with trío and trip.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tribu |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪ɾiβ̞u] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tribu is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪ɾiβ̞u]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,903 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 tribu, with forms such as "rtibu", "tirbu", and "trbiu". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "trío", "trip", "trigo", 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 tribu, spelled T-R-I-B-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grupo social formado por varias familias que reclaman una ascendencia común, en especial aquellas que manifiestan estructura social pero no instituciones.
- 2Grupo social informal, en especial aquel caracterizado por una cultura distintiva y adverso a las instituciones oficiales.
- 3Rango taxonómico más amplio que el género pero menos que la familia.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtibu,tirbu,trbiu,tribbu,triub,trivu,trribu,ttribu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "tribu"
Frequency rank: #5,903 in Spanish
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