boa
[ˈboa]
The verdict
“boa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,259) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,259
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Género de serpientes constrictoras y no venenosas de la familia Boinae distribuidas en América, desde México hasta el centro de la Argentina, África, Madagascar y la isla de la Reunión. El género c...
Corpus desk
Index ES-boa · boa · Spanish
boa · rank #28,259 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,259
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH beauty
Nearest frequency peer: beauty (-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 “boa”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- bastidores
bastidores
71,745 corpus weight
- bayas
bayas
71,744 corpus weight
- beauty
beauty
71,743 corpus weight
- boa
boa
71,742 corpus weight
- boceto
boceto
71,741 corpus weight
- bora
bora
71,740 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “boa” 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 | boa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈboa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “boa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for boa is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈboa]. Frequency #28,259 among 2,459 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for boa in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Bob", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is boa, spelled B-O-A.
Definition
- 1Género de serpientes constrictoras y no venenosas de la familia Boinae distribuidas en América, desde México hasta el centro de la Argentina, África, Madagascar y la isla de la Reunión. El género contiene 4 especies vivientes y la mayor y más conocida es la Boa Constrictor con una longitud que puede variar entre 4 o 3 metros.
- 2Prenda femenina de vestir que consiste en una bufanda de plumas que se coloca rodeando al cuello.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).