umbral
[ũmˈbɾal]
The verdict
“umbral” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #9,554 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,554
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Parte inferior o escalón en la puerta o entrada de una casa, por lo común de piedra y contrapuesto al dintel.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umbral |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ũmˈbɾal] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “umbral” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for umbral is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ũmˈbɾal]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,554 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for umbral, with forms such as "mubral", "ubmral", and "umbarl". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "umbría", "umbrales", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is umbral, spelled U-M-B-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Parte inferior o escalón en la puerta o entrada de una casa, por lo común de piedra y contrapuesto al dintel.
- 2Cantidad mínima necesaria de una magnitud para el inicio de una acción.
- 3Comienzo de la parte de pista utilizable para el aterrizaje.
- 4Paso primero y principal o entrada de cualquier cosa; parte inicial o momento anterior al comienzo de un proceso, acontecimiento, etc.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mubral,ubmral,umbarl,umbbral,umbrall,umbrla,umbrral,ummbral,umrbal,umvral
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of umbral - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “umbral”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is U-M-B-R-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ũmˈbɾal] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “umbría” - see the side-by-side comparison. umbral vs umbría
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.