balanza
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,455
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
balanza is aSpanishnoun. It means: Instrumento que mide el peso de un objeto comparándolo con un baremo conocido Pronounced [baˈlãnsa]. Often confused with blanca and banana.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balanza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈlãnsa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for balanza is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [baˈlãnsa]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,455 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for balanza, with forms such as "ablanza", "baalnza", and "balanaz". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "blanca", "banana", "blanda", 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 balanza, spelled B-A-L-A-N-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento que mide el peso de un objeto comparándolo con un baremo conocido
- 2Comparación o juicio apreciativo que el entendimiento forma de las cosas.
- 3Horca
- 4Nombre que se da, lo mismo que el de refuelle, en varias partes al arte de pesca conocido en las costas de Cantabria con el de medio mundo, y con el de trullón y red de langostas en las mismas y en otras. En los ríos se llama además pandilla; rifol en Aragón; tarrafe en Asturias y velo en Andalucía. Consiste en un aro guarnecido de un pedazo de red en forma de bolsa, y pendiente de tres o cuatro ramales que se unen a un cordel fijo al extremo de un varal elástico. Sirve para la pesca de langostas, robalizas, etc.
- 5La balanza es el atributo de la Justicia personificada, y el símbolo de la equidad.
- 6Emblema de Temis y de Astrea.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ablanza,baalnza,balanaz,balannza,balanzza,balazna,ballanza,balnaza,bbalanza,blaanza,valanza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for balanza
Misspelling Variants of "balanza"
Frequency rank: #10,455 in Spanish
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