baño
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,365
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
baño is aSpanishnoun. It means: Inmersión o rociado del cuerpo con agua para el aseo personal o para refrescarse. Pronounced [ˈbaɲo]. It ranks #1,365 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with bo and ben.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbaɲo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for baño is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbaɲo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,365 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for baño, with forms such as "abño", "baoñ", and "bbaño". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bo", "ben", "bay", 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 baño, spelled B-A-Ñ-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Inmersión o rociado del cuerpo con agua para el aseo personal o para refrescarse.
- 2Disolución de un producto en un líquido para teñir, galvanizar, revelar fotografías, etc.
- 3Capa de metal con que se cubre una joya de bisutería o un objeto de metal, para mejorar su aspecto o protegerlo de la corrosión.
- 4Bañera.
- 5Habitación de la casa habilitada para tomar baños y otras tareas referentes al aseo e higiene personal:
- 6Orden inglesa con tres categorías.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abño,baoñ,bbaño,bñao,vaño
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for baño
Misspelling Variants of "baño"
Frequency rank: #1,365 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Spanish index: