bolera
[boˈleɾa]
The verdict
“bolera” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #56,852 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,852
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Edificio o lugar donde se juega a los bolos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bolera · bolera · Spanish
bolera · rank #56,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,852
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bordadas
Nearest frequency peer: bordadas (+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 “bolera”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- bioquímicos
bioquímicos
43,154 corpus weight
- bióloga
bióloga
43,153 corpus weight
- blandiendo
blandiendo
43,152 corpus weight
- blasfemias
blasfemias
43,151 corpus weight
- bolera
bolera
43,149 corpus weight
- bordadas
bordadas
43,148 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “bolera” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bolera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [boˈleɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “bolera” en español
Rare enough to double-check
bolera is uncommon Spanish at frequency #56,852 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [boˈleɾa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Edificio o lugar donde se juega a los bolos.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bolera, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is bolera, spelled B-O-L-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1Edificio o lugar donde se juega a los bolos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bolera appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El miércoles estuvimos en la bolera, Salma que es muy buena jugando quedo en la final
Synonyms
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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