Bob
/bɒb/
The verdict
“Bob” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,479) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,479
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hipocorístico de Robert, equivalente del español Beto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bob · Bob · Spanish
Bob · rank #4,479 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,479
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH asesinos
Nearest frequency peer: asesinos (-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 “Bob”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ansiedad
ansiedad
95,525 corpus weight
- asesinatos
asesinatos
95,524 corpus weight
- asesinos
asesinos
95,523 corpus weight
- Bob
Bob
95,522 corpus weight
- bolsas
bolsas
95,521 corpus weight
- camión
camión
95,520 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Bob” 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 | Bob |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /bɒb/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Bob”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Bob is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced /bɒb/. Frequency #4,479 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Hipocorístico de Robert, equivalente del español Beto.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Bob, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "bus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Bob, spelled B-O-B.
Definition
- 1Hipocorístico de Robert, equivalente del español Beto.
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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