baca
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,421
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
baca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Espacio para portar equipaje en el techo de los carruajes Pronounced [ˈbaka]. Often confused with bc and BBC.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbaka] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for baca is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbaka]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,421 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for baca, with forms such as "abca", "baac", and "bacca". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bc", "BBC", "bla", 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 baca, spelled B-A-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espacio para portar equipaje en el techo de los carruajes
- 2Cubierta de lona que protegía la baca₁
- 3Por extensión, parrilla o cesta para el equipaje en el techo de los coches
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abca,baac,bacca,bbaca,bcaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for baca
Misspelling Variants of "baca"
Frequency rank: #36,421 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Spanish index: