tubo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,446
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tubo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Objeto de forma cilíndrica, hueco por dentro, casi siempre abierto en ambos extremos. Pronounced [ˈt̪uβ̞o]. It ranks #5,446 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with tus and two.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tubo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪uβ̞o] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tubo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪uβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,446 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for tubo, with forms such as "tbuo", "ttubo", and "tubbo". 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, "tus", "two", "tun", 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 tubo, spelled T-U-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objeto de forma cilíndrica, hueco por dentro, casi siempre abierto en ambos extremos.
- 2Es la maniobra en la disciplina de los deportes acuáticos relacionados con la interacción con las olas (surf, bodyboard...) en la que el deportista se introduce en el espacio hueco creado en el momento en el que la ola impacta contra el fondo del rompiente.
- 3Recipiente pequeño de material flexible, cerrado por un extremo y por el otro con una abertura que se cierra con una tapa de rosca. Se usa para guardar sustancias pastosas y blandas.
- 4Recipiente pequeño rígido, cerrado por un lado y por el otro con una pequeña tapa a presión o con rosca. Generalmente es de plástico o vidrio y suele estar destinado a guadar medicamentos.
- 5Vaso estrecho y alargado.
- 6Pieza cilíndrica de los aparatos de radio y televisión.
- 7Parte de un órgano hueca y alargada, tanto en animales como en vegetales.
- 8Recipiente que se usa para contener y dispersar un aerosol.
- 9Auricular del teléfono, parte del teléfono que se lleva al oído y boca, para escuchar y hablar.
- 10Ferrocarril subterráneo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: tbuo,ttubo,tubbo,tuob,utbo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tubo
Misspelling Variants of "tubo"
Frequency rank: #5,446 in Spanish
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