baile
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,644
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
baile is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de bailar. Pronounced [ˈbajle]. It ranks #2,644 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with bal and base.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baile |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbajle] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for baile is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbajle]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,644 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for baile, with forms such as "abile", "baiel", and "baille". 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, "bal", "base", "bill", 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 baile, spelled B-A-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de bailar.
- 2Pieza musical para bailar.
- 3Local en que se baila.
- 4Fiesta o reunión en que se baila.
- 5Forma convencional y estilizada de bailar un determinado ritmo o estilo.
- 6Interludio bailado que se representaba entre las piezas de una trilogía cómica clásica.
- 7Transposición de datos ordenados que altera accidentalmente su sentido.
- 8Por extensión, cambio repetido en el orden o administración de algo.
- 9Enfrentamiento físico entre dos o más personas.
- 10Persona que tiene por costumbre u oficio el apropiarse de cosas que no le pertenecen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abile,baiel,baille,balie,bbaile,biale,vaile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for baile
Misspelling Variants of "baile"
Frequency rank: #2,644 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Spanish index: