bocha
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,517
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bocha is aSpanishnoun. It means: Bola de madera o metal, usada en el juego de bochas₁. Pronounced [ˈbot͡ʃa]. Often confused with bola and boda.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bocha |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbot͡ʃa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bocha is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbot͡ʃa]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,517 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for bocha, with forms such as "bbocha", "bcoha", and "bocah". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bola", "boda", "bota", 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 bocha, spelled B-O-C-H-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bola de madera o metal, usada en el juego de bochas₁.
- 2Por analogía, pequeña bola de vidrio o metal que se usa en diversos juegos infantiles.
- 3Cabeza del ser humano, en especial si éste es calvo.
- 4Bola de helado.
- 5Pomo (bola de la palanca de cambio).
- 6Gran cantidad de alguna cosa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbocha,bcoha,bocah,boccha,bochha,bohca,obcha,vocha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bocha
Misspelling Variants of "bocha"
Frequency rank: #29,517 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Spanish index: