bla
[ˈbla]
The verdict
“bla” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,625) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,625
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se utiliza para representar el habla continuada e insustancial.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bla · bla · Spanish
bla · rank #6,625 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,625
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH billete
Nearest frequency peer: billete (-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 “bla”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- baloncesto
baloncesto
93,378 corpus weight
- billete
billete
93,377 corpus weight
- bla
bla
93,376 corpus weight
- blue
blue
93,375 corpus weight
- bodas
bodas
93,374 corpus weight
- borracho
borracho
93,373 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bla” 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 | bla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈbla] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bla”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bla is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bo", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈbla]. Frequency #6,625 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Se utiliza para representar el habla continuada e insustancial.".
bla doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is bla, spelled B-L-A.
Definition
- 1Se utiliza para representar el habla continuada e insustancial.
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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