boa
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,259
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
boa is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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... Pronounced [ˈboa]. Often confused with by and bu.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for boa is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈboa]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,259 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for boa in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is boa, spelled B-O-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Frequency rank: #28,259 in Spanish
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