umbral

Name: umbral, Spanish Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[ũmˈbɾal]

/[ũmˈbɾal]/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“umbral” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,554. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,554
frequency rank, Spanish: 448
“U” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parte inferior o escalón en la puerta o entrada de una casa, por lo común de piedra y contrapuesto al dintel.

Corpus desk

Index ES-umbral · umbral · Spanish

umbral · rank #9,554 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #9,554
LEN-LONG 6 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-MID 448
PHOTO-FINISH ubicados

Nearest frequency peer: ubicados (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

totales

90,450
traidores

90,449
ubicados

90,448
umbral

90,447
unieron

90,446
vacías

90,445

What this shows “umbral” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

umbral vs umbría

67% similar

umbral vs umbrales

75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for umbral
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)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “umbral”

De izquierda a derecha: las pocas palabras que cargan el habla diaria, luego la cola larga casi invisible.umbralcae aquí:

#9,554

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

La escala es logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× más rara). En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “ubicados” (#9,553), “unieron” (#9,555), “traidores” (#9,552). Entre 448 lemas con “U”, “umbral” va en #9,554. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around umbral (IPA [ũmˈbɾal]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,554 among 448 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

1
Parte inferior o escalón en la puerta o entrada de una casa, por lo común de piedra y contrapuesto al dintel.
2
Cantidad mínima necesaria de una magnitud para el inicio de una acción.
3
Comienzo de la parte de pista utilizable para el aterrizaje.
4
Paso primero y principal o entrada de cualquier cosa; parte inicial o momento anterior al comienzo de un proceso, acontecimiento, etc.

Synonyms

lindar

This word in other languages

threshold(English)seuil(Français)Schwelle(Deutsch)limiar(Português)

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.

Edit distance from "umbral"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "umbral"?

"umbral" is spelled U-M-B-R-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ũmˈbɾal].

What does "umbral" mean?

As a noun, "umbral" means: Parte inferior o escalón en la puerta o entrada de una casa, por lo común de piedra y contrapuesto al dintel.

What words are commonly confused with "umbral"?

"umbral" is commonly confused with "umbría", "umbrales". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "umbral"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "umbral" is [ũmˈbɾal]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "umbral" come from?

"umbral" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "umbral", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

vacías#9,556 verbal#9,557 Stalin#9,543 adulta#9,568

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

totales10 variants amplios10 variants resulte10 variants apostar10 variants