zambomba
Letters
8 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
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zambomba is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento de percusión muy típico en las fiestas navideñas en España. Consiste en un cilindro hueco más o menos grande que puede ser de distintos materiales (cerámica, madera, etc.) con uno de su... Pronounced [sãmˈbõmba].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zambomba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [sãmˈbõmba] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for zambomba is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [sãmˈbõmba]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for zambomba in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 zambomba, spelled Z-A-M-B-O-M-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento de percusión muy típico en las fiestas navideñas en España. Consiste en un cilindro hueco más o menos grande que puede ser de distintos materiales (cerámica, madera, etc.) con uno de sus extremos cerrado con un parche, el cual se atraviesa por el centro con una varilla o una cuerda. Al frotar la varilla, la zambomba produce un sonido grave y peculiar.
- 2Vejiga de cerdo hinchada.
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