trombón
[t̪ɾõmˈbõn]
The verdict
“trombón” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #52,599 among 34,400 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,599
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,400
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instrumento musical de viento metal, cuyo sonido se produce gracias a la vibración de los labios del intérprete en la boquilla a partir de la columna del aire, y cuyas notas se obtienen por el movi...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trombón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪ɾõmˈbõn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trombón” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
trombón is uncommon Spanish at frequency #52,599 among 34,400 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [t̪ɾõmˈbõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrumento musical de viento metal, cuyo sonido se produce gracias a la vibración de los labios del intérprete en la boquilla a partir de la columna del aire, y cuyas notas se obtienen por el movi...".
trombón has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is trombón, spelled T-R-O-M-B-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Instrumento musical de viento metal, cuyo sonido se produce gracias a la vibración de los labios del intérprete en la boquilla a partir de la columna del aire, y cuyas notas se obtienen por el movimiento de un tubo móvil, denominado vara.
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 “trombón”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-R-O-M-B-Ó-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪ɾõmˈbõn] (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.