tubo de ensayo
The verdict
“tubo de ensayo” 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
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pequeño tubo cilíndrico de vidrio extremadamente abierto y redondeado, que se utiliza en los laboratorios para contener pequeñas muestras, líquidas o sólidas, aunque pueden tener otras fases, como ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tubo de ensayo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈt̪uβ̞o ð̞e ẽnˈsaʝo] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tubo de ensayo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tubo de ensayo is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪uβ̞o ð̞e ẽnˈsaʝo]. 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: "Pequeño tubo cilíndrico de vidrio extremadamente abierto y redondeado, que se utiliza en los laboratorios para contener pequeñas muestras, líquidas o sólidas, aunque pueden tener otras fases, como ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for tubo de ensayo 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 tubo de ensayo, spelled T-U-B-O- -D-E- -E-N-S-A-Y-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pequeño tubo cilíndrico de vidrio extremadamente abierto y redondeado, que se utiliza en los laboratorios para contener pequeñas muestras, líquidas o sólidas, aunque pueden tener otras fases, como realizar reacciones químicas en pequeña escala o mezclar sustancias.
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Using “tubo de ensayo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-U-B-O- -D-E- -E-N-S-A-Y-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈt̪uβ̞o ð̞e ẽnˈsaʝo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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