bax
/ɓaʃ/
The verdict
“bax” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #86,517 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,517
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Golpear, destruir a golpes.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bax · bax · Spanish
bax · rank #86,517 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,517
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH batllismo
Nearest frequency peer: batllismo (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “bax”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- bastarán
bastarán
13,487 corpus weight
- batallan
batallan
13,486 corpus weight
- batllismo
batllismo
13,485 corpus weight
- bax
bax
13,484 corpus weight
- bañaban
bañaban
13,483 corpus weight
- bañaron
bañaron
13,482 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “bax” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bax |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɓaʃ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #86,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “bax” en español
Rare enough to double-check
bax is uncommon Spanish at frequency #86,517 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɓaʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Golpear, destruir a golpes.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bax in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is bax, spelled B-A-X.
Definition
- 1Golpear, destruir a golpes.
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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