vertèbre lombaire

/[vɛʁ.tɛ.bʁə lɔ̃.bɛʁ]/ noun

The verdict

“vertèbre lombaire” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency Spanish
17
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Vértebra lumbar

Key facts for vertèbre lombaire
PropertyValue
Headwordvertèbre lombaire
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[vɛʁ.tɛ.bʁə lɔ̃.bɛʁ]
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “vertèbre lombaire” sits in Spanish frequency

vertèbre lombaire 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 vertèbre lombaire is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vɛʁ.tɛ.bʁə lɔ̃.bɛʁ]. 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: "Vértebra lumbar".

No misspelling variants are generated for vertèbre lombaire 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 vertèbre lombaire, spelled V-E-R-T-È-B-R-E- -L-O-M-B-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Vértebra lumbar

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vertèbre lombaire"?
"vertèbre lombaire" is spelled V-E-R-T-È-B-R-E- -L-O-M-B-A-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is [vɛʁ.tɛ.bʁə lɔ̃.bɛʁ].
What does "vertèbre lombaire" mean?
As a noun, "vertèbre lombaire" means: Vértebra lumbar
How do you pronounce "vertèbre lombaire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vertèbre lombaire" is [vɛʁ.tɛ.bʁə lɔ̃.bɛʁ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “vertèbre lombaire”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is V-E-R-T-È-B-R-E- -L-O-M-B-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [vɛʁ.tɛ.bʁə lɔ̃.bɛʁ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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