balsa
[ˈbalsa]
The verdict
“balsa” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,278. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,278
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Depósito de agua que se forma naturalmente al inundarse una depresión.
Corpus desk
Index ES-balsa · balsa · Spanish
balsa · rank #20,278 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,278
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bajista
Nearest frequency peer: bajista (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “balsa”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- aztecas
aztecas
79,725 corpus weight
- bajista
bajista
79,724 corpus weight
- balsa
balsa
79,723 corpus weight
- basuras
basuras
79,722 corpus weight
- bañarse
bañarse
79,721 corpus weight
- beat
beat
79,720 corpus weight
What this shows “balsa” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | balsa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbalsa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “balsa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around balsa (IPA [ˈbalsa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,278 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for balsa, with forms such as "ablsa", "ballsa", and "balssa". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bla", "bas", "base", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is balsa, spelled B-A-L-S-A.
Definition
- 1Depósito de agua que se forma naturalmente al inundarse una depresión.
- 2Depósito de agua creado artificialmente en un terreno.
- 3Árbol americano de la familia de las Borragináceas, con diversas variedades. Se caracteriza por tener una madera blanca, suave y muy ligera, que flota en el agua, y es utilizada en aeromodelismo.
- 4Madera de este árbol.
- 5Armazón de troncos unidos con cuerdas, que permite navegar y transportar carga, moviéndose con ayuda de las corrientes y una pértiga.
- 6Plataforma flotante hecha con cualquier clase de materiales, como metales, maderas, goma o plástico que sirve para desplazarse sobre el agua y transportar una carga.
- 7Estanque para los residuos líquidos de los molinos de aceite.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablsa
- ballsa
- balssa
- basla
- bbalsa
- blasa
- valsa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of balsa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "balsa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).