bolas criollas
[ˈbolas ˈkɾjoʝas]
The verdict
“bolas criollas” 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) — Juego tradicional de Venezuela en el que se usan bolas pesadas del tamaño aproximado de una naranja grande que deben lanzarse cerca de una bola más pequeña (mingo).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bolas criollas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈbolas ˈkɾjoʝas] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bolas criollas” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bolas criollas is 14 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbolas ˈkɾjoʝas]. 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: "Juego tradicional de Venezuela en el que se usan bolas pesadas del tamaño aproximado de una naranja grande que deben lanzarse cerca de una bola más pequeña (mingo).".
No misspelling variants are generated for bolas criollas 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 bolas criollas, spelled B-O-L-A-S- -C-R-I-O-L-L-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Juego tradicional de Venezuela en el que se usan bolas pesadas del tamaño aproximado de una naranja grande que deben lanzarse cerca de una bola más pequeña (mingo).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-O-L-A-S- -C-R-I-O-L-L-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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