bal
[bal]
The verdict
“bal” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,776) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,776
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Miel.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bal · bal · Spanish
bal · rank #30,776 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,776
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH Balaguer
Nearest frequency peer: Balaguer (+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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “bal”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- autista
autista
69,228 corpus weight
- aymara
aymara
69,227 corpus weight
- bal
bal
69,225 corpus weight
- Balaguer
Balaguer
69,224 corpus weight
- banal
banal
69,223 corpus weight
- barre
barre
69,222 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bal” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bal] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bal”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bal is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "be", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [bal]. Frequency #30,776 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Miel.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bal in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "bo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is bal, spelled B-A-L.
Definition
- 1Miel.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).