bola
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,033
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bola is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuerpo cualquiera de forma esférica. Pronounced [ˈbola]. It ranks #3,033 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with boy and bot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bola |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbola] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bola is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbola]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,033 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for bola, with forms such as "bbola", "bloa", and "boal". 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, "boy", "bot", "box", 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 bola, spelled B-O-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cuerpo cualquiera de forma esférica.
- 2Esfera de tamaño variable que se usa en diferentes juegos y deportes.
- 3Juego consistente en lanzar bolas de tamaño y peso uniforme a la distancia, ganando quien la envíe más lejos.
- 4En varios juegos de pelota, entre ellos el béisbol y el softball, falta cometida por el lanzador al enviar la pelota fuera del área prescripta para ello.
- 5Cosa comunicada por rumor popular, cierta o falsa pero de dudoso origen.
- 6Arma arrojadiza consistente en varias bolas unidas entre sí por correas de cuero, usada para capturar ganado u otros animales atándoles los pies entre sí.
- 7Persona inhábil o falta de iniciativa.
- 8Cantidad grande y desordenada de personas u objetos.
- 9Bullicio o desorden provocado por una reunión.
- 10Dinero en efectivo.
- 11Testículo.
- 12Apelativo cariñoso, tipicamente hacia la pareja sentimental.
- 13Betún para lustrar calzado.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbola,bloa,boal,bolla,obla,vola
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bola
Misspelling Variants of "bola"
Frequency rank: #3,033 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Spanish index: