bolina

/[boˈlina]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

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bolina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ruido y alboroto, especialmente el de riña entre dos personas o más. Pronounced [boˈlina].

Key facts for bolina
PropertyValue
Headwordbolina
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[boˈlina]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

bolina is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for bolina is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [boˈlina]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for bolina 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 bolina, spelled B-O-L-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ruido y alboroto, especialmente el de riña entre dos personas o más.
  2. 2
    Cabo con que se tensa hasta proa la relinga (soga que refuerza las orillas de las velas).
  3. 3
    Sonda que se encuentra al extremo de una cuerda.
  4. 4
    Cordel que conforma el conjunto de cabos con que se cuelgan los coyes (piezas de lona que sirven de cama a bordo).
  5. 5
    Castigo que se imponía a ciertos marineros, atándolos a una argolla.
  6. 6
    En la brújula, intervalo o rumbo que dista seis cuartas de otro.
  7. 7
    Estado mental y físico que resulta de beber mucho alcohol.
  8. 8
    Nombre común, en diferentes zonas, de las plantas Artemisia barrelieri, Echinospartum boissieri, Genista cinerea y Genista umbellata.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bolina"?
"bolina" is spelled B-O-L-I-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [boˈlina].
What does "bolina" mean?
As a noun, "bolina" means: Ruido y alboroto, especialmente el de riña entre dos personas o más.
How do you pronounce "bolina"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bolina" is [boˈlina]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bolina" come from?
"bolina" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.