bocado
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,583
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
bocado is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cantidad de alimentos u otra materia que aproximadamente cabe en una boca humana adulta. Pronounced [boˈkað̞o]. Often confused with bocas and bocho.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bocado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [boˈkað̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bocado is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [boˈkað̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,583 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for bocado, with forms such as "bbocado", "bcoado", and "boacdo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "bocas", "bocho", "boludo", 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 bocado, spelled B-O-C-A-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cantidad de alimentos u otra materia que aproximadamente cabe en una boca humana adulta.
- 2Algo de comer.
- 3Platillo o tipo de comida, generalmente típico de un lugar y apreciado por su sabor o calidad.
- 4Incisión o marca que se hace con los dientes.
- 5Trozo que se saca de una vez con la boca o con el sacabocados, o cualquier pedazo de un tamaño aproximadamente igual.
- 6Implemento que se introduce en la boca de algunos animales, como los caballos y las mulas, para dirigir sus movimientos.
- 7Implemento que se introduce en la boca de algunos animales, como las ovejas, para que babeen.
- 8Implemento para mantener abierta la boca de algún animal para exámenes o curaciones.
- 9Sustancia que se mezcla con la comida para envenenar a alguien.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbocado,bcoado,boacdo,bocaddo,bocaod,boccado,bocdao,obcado,vocado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bocado
Misspelling Variants of "bocado"
Frequency rank: #21,583 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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