bis
[ˈbis]
The verdict
“bis” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,023) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,023
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Repetición de un espectáculo o actuación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bis · bis · Spanish
bis · rank #15,023 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,023
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH biológicos
Nearest frequency peer: biológicos (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “bis”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- añaden
añaden
84,982 corpus weight
- barroco
barroco
84,981 corpus weight
- biológicos
biológicos
84,979 corpus weight
- bis
bis
84,978 corpus weight
- borda
borda
84,977 corpus weight
- bota
bota
84,976 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bis” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | bis |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbis] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bis”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bis is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbis]. Frequency #15,023 among 2,459 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
bis has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bo", "bu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is bis, spelled B-I-S.
Definition
- 1Repetición de un espectáculo o actuación.
- 2Número de la calle repetido, que se origina por edificar dos inmuebles en el espacio donde antes había sólo uno.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).