bab
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,147
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bab is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mutación suave del sustantivo masculino pab ('papa'). Pronounced [ˈbɑːp]. Often confused with by and be.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bab |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɑːp] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bab is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbɑːp]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,147 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mutación suave del sustantivo masculino pab ('papa').".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bab in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "bo", 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 bab, spelled B-A-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mutación suave del sustantivo masculino pab ('papa').
Frequency rank: #45,147 in Spanish
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