baboso
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,371
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
baboso is anSpanishadj. It means: Que segrega baba (sustancia viscosa animal o vegetal, en particular la saliva). Pronounced [baˈβ̞oso]. Often confused with baso and Bajos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baboso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [baˈβ̞oso] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for baboso is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈβ̞oso]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,371 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for baboso, with forms such as "abboso", "babboso", and "baboos". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "baso", "Bajos", "Baños", 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 baboso, spelled B-A-B-O-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que segrega baba (sustancia viscosa animal o vegetal, en particular la saliva).
- 2Cubierto de baba, o que las segrega en abundancia.
- 3De textura apenas cuajada, especialmente dicho de los huevos en gastronomía.
- 4Falto de inteligencia o entendimiento.
- 5Que carece de la habilidad o conocimiento requeridos para realizar eficazmente algo.
- 6Que no tiene valor para enfrentarse a las dificultades o para defender sus ideas.
- 7Que intenta ganar el favor de una persona comportándose de forma zalamera y servil.
- 8Impertinentemente obsequioso con las personas del género de su preferencia.
- 9Arrogante, soberbio.
- 10Cubierto por una capa viscosa desagradable al tacto.
- 11Dicho de un hombre, que es pervertido, morboso o aberrado sexual.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abboso,babboso,baboos,babosso,babsoo,baobso,bbaboso,bbaoso,vavoso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for baboso
Misspelling Variants of "baboso"
Frequency rank: #35,371 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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