zumba
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,460
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
zumba is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cencerro que lleva el caballo que está al frente de una recua o el buey manso que guía a las reses bravas. Pronounced [ˈsũmba]. Often confused with zumo and zurda.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zumba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsũmba] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for zumba is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsũmba]. Corpus data places it at rank #38,460 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for zumba, with forms such as "uzmba", "zmuba", and "zubma". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "zumo", "zurda", "zombi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 zumba, spelled Z-U-M-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cencerro que lleva el caballo que está al frente de una recua o el buey manso que guía a las reses bravas.
- 2Placa de madera, hueso, metal o pizarra de forma oval o romboide atada por uno de sus extremos a través de un orificio a una cuerda, con la cual se le da vueltas como si fuera una honda y de esta forma emite un sonido profundo y característico.
- 3Burla de poca importancia durante una conversación.
- 4Serie de golpes que se da a alguien.
- 5Borrachera constante
- 6Disciplina fitness enfocada por una parte a mantener un cuerpo saludable y por otra a desarrollar, fortalecer y dar flexibilidad al cuerpo mediante movimientos de baile combinados con una serie de rutinas aeróbicas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: uzmba,zmuba,zubma,zumab,zumbba,zummba,zumva,zzumba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for zumba
Misspelling Variants of "zumba"
Frequency rank: #38,460 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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