báculo
[ˈbakulo]
The verdict
“báculo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #53,391 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,391
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Palo o cayado que traen en la mano para sostenerse los que están débiles o viejos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-baculo · báculo · Spanish
báculo · rank #53,391 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,391
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH buzones
Nearest frequency peer: buzones (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “báculo”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- bruna
bruna
46,613 corpus weight
- Busch
Busch
46,612 corpus weight
- buzones
buzones
46,611 corpus weight
- báculo
báculo
46,610 corpus weight
- caciquismo
caciquismo
46,608 corpus weight
- cafeteros
cafeteros
46,607 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “báculo” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | báculo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbakulo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “báculo” en español
Rare enough to double-check
báculo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #53,391 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbakulo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Palo o cayado que traen en la mano para sostenerse los que están débiles o viejos.".
báculo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is báculo, spelled B-Á-C-U-L-O.
Definition
- 1Palo o cayado que traen en la mano para sostenerse los que están débiles o viejos.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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