bo
[ˈbo]
The verdict
“bo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,671) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,671
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Para llamar, expresar admiración, sorpresa y de uso completivo variado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bo · bo · Spanish
bo · rank #7,671 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,671
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH ayuden
Nearest frequency peer: ayuden (-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 “bo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- auxiliar
auxiliar
92,333 corpus weight
- avanzando
avanzando
92,332 corpus weight
- ayuden
ayuden
92,331 corpus weight
- bo
bo
92,330 corpus weight
- bono
bono
92,329 corpus weight
- brecha
brecha
92,328 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bo” 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 | bo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈbo] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bo is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈbo]. Frequency #7,671 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Para llamar, expresar admiración, sorpresa y de uso completivo variado.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bo in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Bob", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is bo, spelled B-O.
Definition
- 1Para llamar, expresar admiración, sorpresa y de uso completivo variado.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entonces yo le dije: “¿Que hacés, bo?”.
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.