banca
[ˈbãŋka]
The verdict
“banca” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #4,056 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,056
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Asiento para más de una persona.
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 | banca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbãŋka] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “banca” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for banca is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbãŋka]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,056 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for banca, with forms such as "abnca", "bacna", and "banac". 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, "boca", "baño", "basa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is banca, spelled B-A-N-C-A.
Definition
- 1Asiento para más de una persona.
- 2En particular, banca₁ sin respaldo.
- 3Por extensión, puesto electivo en un cuerpo colegiado, en especial en un parlamento.
- 4Cajón en que se meten los lavadores para evitar mojarse.
- 5Conjunto de los bancos y banqueros que operan en un lugar.
- 6Mesa en que se exponen los artículos para vender en una plaza o mercado.
- 7Terreno destinado al cultivo.
- 8Jugador que reparte y toma las apuestas en un juego de naipes.
- 9Juego de naipes en que cada jugador apuesta a que saldrá una carta específica del mazo.
- 10Conjunto de apuestas que lleva el ganador en un juego de naipes.
- 11Especie de canoa elaborada de un tronco ahuecado típica de Filipinas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abnca,bacna,banac,bancca,bannca,bbanca,bnaca,vanca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of banca - 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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Using “banca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-A-N-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈbãŋka] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “boca” - see the side-by-side comparison. banca vs boca
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.