bailar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,965
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bailar is aSpanishverb. It means: Mover el cuerpo de forma rítmica, generalmente acompañado de música. Pronounced [bajˈlaɾ]. It ranks #2,965 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with bala and bajar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bailar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bajˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bailar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bajˈlaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,965 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 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 bailar, with forms such as "abilar", "baialr", and "bailarr". 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, "bala", "bajar", "baile", 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 bailar, spelled B-A-I-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mover el cuerpo de forma rítmica, generalmente acompañado de música.
- 2Dicho de una cosa, moverse por no encajar ajustadamente o por moverse su punto de apoyo o suspensión.
- 3En particular, girar una cosa sobre sí misma, como un trompo.
- 4Moverse espontáneamente por puro placer o exceso de energía.
- 5En particular, moverse nerviosamente un caballo.
- 6Moverse un elemento de una composición fuera de su sitio.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abilar,baialr,bailarr,baillar,bailra,baliar,bbailar,bialar,vailar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bailar
Misspelling Variants of "bailar"
Frequency rank: #2,965 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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