bao
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,424
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bao is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada uno de los maderos que de trecho en trecho atraviesan de babor a estribor, endentados sobre los durmientes y sirven para aguantar los costados, y sostener las cubiertas con todo el peso de la ... Pronounced [ˈbao]. Often confused with by and be.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bao |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbao] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bao is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbao]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,424 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bao in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "bo", 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 bao, spelled B-A-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada uno de los maderos que de trecho en trecho atraviesan de babor a estribor, endentados sobre los durmientes y sirven para aguantar los costados, y sostener las cubiertas con todo el peso de la artillería y demás efectos: hacen el oficio de las vigas en las casas. En algunos buques se emplean baos de hierro, que ofrecen las ventajas de ser más ligeros, más sólidos y de menos bulto.
- 2Cada uno de los maderos que se ponen a derecha e izquierda de un palo o mastelero, en el sentido de popa a proa, descansando sobre las cacholas, o loscanes, para sostener las cofas, y crucetas.
Frequency rank: #36,424 in Spanish
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