baobab
[baoˈβ̞aβ̞]
The verdict
“baobab” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #77,950 among 24,339 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,950
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 24,339
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Adansonia spp.) Cualquiera de ocho especies de árboles nativos de Madagascar, África continental y Australia, de gran tamaño, alcanzando los 25 m de altura y los 10 de diámetro de tronco, en el qu...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baobab |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baoˈβ̞aβ̞] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baobab” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
baobab is uncommon Spanish at frequency #77,950 among 24,339 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [baoˈβ̞aβ̞]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Adansonia spp.) Cualquiera de ocho especies de árboles nativos de Madagascar, África continental y Australia, de gran tamaño, alcanzando los 25 m de altura y los 10 de diámetro de tronco, en el qu...".
No misspelling variants are generated for baobab in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is baobab, spelled B-A-O-B-A-B.
Definition
- 1(Adansonia spp.) Cualquiera de ocho especies de árboles nativos de Madagascar, África continental y Australia, de gran tamaño, alcanzando los 25 m de altura y los 10 de diámetro de tronco, en el que pueden almacenar más de 100.000 l de agua para hacer frente a las sequías. Son árboles de zona árida, de hoja caduca, con las ramas tortuosas y recubiertas de una corteza de color gris claro. Las flores son pequeñas, erectas salvo en A. digitata, y fructifican dando lugar a cápsulas repletas de una pulpa suave y blanca, comestible, poliseminadas.
This word in other languages
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 “baobab”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-A-O-B-A-B - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.