bola de Bichat
[ˈbola ð̞e β̞iˈt͡ʃat̪]
The verdict
“bola de Bichat” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Bolsas de grasa encapsulada situadas en la región de la mejilla, una en el lado derecho y otra en el izquierdo, cada una con un volumen de alrededor de 10 cm³ y un peso de 9 gramos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bola de Bichat |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈbola ð̞e β̞iˈt͡ʃat̪] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bola de Bichat” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bola de Bichat is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbola ð̞e β̞iˈt͡ʃat̪]. 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: "Bolsas de grasa encapsulada situadas en la región de la mejilla, una en el lado derecho y otra en el izquierdo, cada una con un volumen de alrededor de 10 cm³ y un peso de 9 gramos.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bola de Bichat 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 bola de Bichat, spelled B-O-L-A- -D-E- -B-I-C-H-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bolsas de grasa encapsulada situadas en la región de la mejilla, una en el lado derecho y otra en el izquierdo, cada una con un volumen de alrededor de 10 cm³ y un peso de 9 gramos.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-O-L-A- -D-E- -B-I-C-H-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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