bolívar
/bəˈliːvɑː(ɹ)/
"bolivar" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bolívar” is uncommon English (frequency #76,590 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,590
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The currency of Venezuela, divided into 100 céntimos.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bolivar · bolívar · English
bolívar · rank #76,590 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,590
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bohannon
Nearest frequency peer: Bohannon (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “bolívar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bluest
bluest
23,416 corpus weight
- boeuf
boeuf
23,413 corpus weight
- Bohannon
Bohannon
23,412 corpus weight
- bolívar
bolívar
23,411 corpus weight
- bottega
bottega
23,408 corpus weight
- braying
braying
23,405 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bolívar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bolívar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bəˈliːvɑː(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bolívar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bolívar is uncommon English at frequency #76,590 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bəˈliːvɑː(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The currency of Venezuela, divided into 100 céntimos.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bolívar, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish bolívar, ultimately named after Simón Bolívar. The correct English form is bolívar, spelled B-O-L-Í-V-A-R.
Definition
- 1The currency of Venezuela, divided into 100 céntimos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bolívar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He can compute his earnings for a week at so many bolívares a day, and he knows the costs of various construction materials and with some effort can make a simple summation of costs of materials for a job.
In 1921, for example, a large chicken could be obtained for four bolívares, whereas now one cost ten bolívares. Likewise, oranges that had previously sold for two bolívares per hundred were now one bolívar for four.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish bolívar, ultimately named after Simón Bolívar.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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