boca de lobo
[ˈboka ð̞e ˈloβ̞o]
The verdict
“boca de lobo” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Dicho de una vía o lugar específico, que por falta de iluminación es muy oscuro y se presta para peligros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boca de lobo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈboka ð̞e ˈloβ̞o] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “boca de lobo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for boca de lobo is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈboka ð̞e ˈloβ̞o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dicho de una vía o lugar específico, que por falta de iluminación es muy oscuro y se presta para peligros.".
No misspelling variants are generated for boca de lobo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 boca de lobo, spelled B-O-C-A- -D-E- -L-O-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho de una vía o lugar específico, que por falta de iluminación es muy oscuro y se presta para peligros.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “boca de lobo”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-O-C-A- -D-E- -L-O-B-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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