Bolaño
[boˈlaɲo]
The verdict
“Bolaño” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,413 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,413
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido
Corpus desk
Index ES-bolano · Bolaño · Spanish
Bolaño · rank #51,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,413
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bloqueadores
Nearest frequency peer: bloqueadores (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “Bolaño”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- berrinches
berrinches
48,593 corpus weight
- blanquecino
blanquecino
48,590 corpus weight
- bloqueadores
bloqueadores
48,589 corpus weight
- Bolaño
Bolaño
48,588 corpus weight
- botica
botica
48,587 corpus weight
- boto
boto
48,586 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “Bolaño” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bolaño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [boˈlaɲo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “Bolaño” en español
Rare enough to double-check
Bolaño is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,413 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [boˈlaɲo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Apellido".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Bolaño, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Bolaño, spelled B-O-L-A-Ñ-O.
Definition
- 1Apellido
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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