balance
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,282
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
balance is aSpanishnoun. It means: El movimiento que hace algún cuerpo inclinándose ya a un lado ya al opuesto. Pronounced [baˈlãnse]. It ranks #5,282 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with blanc and blanco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balance |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈlãnse] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for balance is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈlãnse]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,282 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for balance, with forms such as "ablance", "baalnce", and "balacne". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "blanc", "blanco", "blanca", 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 balance, spelled B-A-L-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1El movimiento que hace algún cuerpo inclinándose ya a un lado ya al opuesto.
- 2La duda o perplejidad en hacer alguna cosa.
- 3En la esgrima, el movimiento que se hace inclinando el cuerpo hacia adelante o hacia atrás sin mover los pies.
- 4El libro en que los comerciantes y banqueros anotan su activo y su pasivo.
- 5La cuenta final por mayor de entradas y salidas, que hacen los comerciantes y banqueros, y que demuestra el estado de su caudal.
- 6La cifra que representa la diferencia entre el debe y el haber.
- 7El movimiento que hace la nave de babor a estribor o al contrario. Cuando la nave hace el movimiento cayendo sobre la proa se llama cabezada, y si sobre la popa, alfada o caída de popa.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ablance,baalnce,balacne,balancce,balanec,balannce,balanse,ballance,balnace,bbalance,blaance,valance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for balance
Misspelling Variants of "balance"
Frequency rank: #5,282 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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