tubo de ensayo

/[ˈt̪uβ̞o ð̞e ẽnˈsaʝo]/ phrase

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 ...

Key facts for tubo de ensayo
PropertyValue
Headwordtubo de ensayo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈt̪uβ̞o ð̞e ẽnˈsaʝo]
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “tubo de ensayo” sits in Spanish frequency

tubo de ensayo falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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 realizar reacciones químicas en pequeña escala o mezclar sustancias.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tubo de ensayo"?
"tubo de ensayo" is spelled T-U-B-O- -D-E- -E-N-S-A-Y-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈt̪uβ̞o ð̞e ẽnˈsaʝo].
What does "tubo de ensayo" mean?
As a phrase, "tubo de ensayo" means: 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 ...
How do you pronounce "tubo de ensayo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tubo de ensayo" is [ˈt̪uβ̞o ð̞e ẽnˈsaʝo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tubo de ensayo" come from?
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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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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.