bollo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,518
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bollo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pastel pequeño y esponjoso. Pronounced [ˈboʝo]. Often confused with boo and bono.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bollo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈboʝo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bollo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈboʝo]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,518 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for bollo, with forms such as "bbollo", "blolo", and "bolol". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boo", "bono", "bull", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 bollo, spelled B-O-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pastel pequeño y esponjoso.
- 2Masa del pan, ya dividida y moldeada en la forma en que se horneará, pero aún cruda.
- 3Masa de agua, harina, sal y, ocasionalmente, manteca, alargada o redonda, que cocida sobre una estufa a leña se come caliente, solo o untado con mantequilla, miel o chicharrones.
- 4Pasta de pinole y cacao.
- 5Pasta de maíz molido.
- 6Masa de maíz cocida en agua hirviendo. Generalmente se refiere a la que se prepara sin envolver (las envueltas en farfollas de maíz se conocen como hallaquitas).
- 7Pliegue de tela para formar un bulto, usado sobre todo en las mangas de ciertas prendas femeninas.
- 8Situación confusa y desordenada.
- 9Genitales externos de la mujer.
- 10Nalgas.
- 11Por extensión, mujer que siente atracción sexual por personas de su mismo sexo biológico.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbollo,blolo,bolol,obllo,vollo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bollo
Misspelling Variants of "bollo"
Frequency rank: #29,518 in Spanish
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