bocha
[ˈbot͡ʃa]
The verdict
“bocha” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #29,517. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,517
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bola de madera o metal, usada en el juego de bochas₁.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bocha · bocha · Spanish
bocha · rank #29,517 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,517
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH biomasa
Nearest frequency peer: biomasa (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “bocha”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- biomasa
biomasa
70,485 corpus weight
- bocha
bocha
70,484 corpus weight
- bollo
bollo
70,483 corpus weight
- bolsita
bolsita
70,482 corpus weight
- born
born
70,481 corpus weight
- burrito
burrito
70,480 corpus weight
What this shows “bocha” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | 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) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “bocha”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bocha (IPA [ˈbot͡ʃa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,517 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bocha, with forms such as "bbocha", "bcoha", and "bocah". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is bocha, spelled B-O-C-H-A.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bocha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yo jamás me vestí de pobre, ni de obrero, porque no lo soy. Pero no quiere decir que yo no pueda escribir canción que diga 'caras curtidas, rabia de esperar, seis de la tarde, estación Liniers', porque estuve una bocha de veces a las seis de la tarde en la estación Liniers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbocha
- bcoha
- bocah
- boccha
- bochha
- bohca
- obcha
- vocha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bocha - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).