bolo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,760
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bolo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pieza de madera labrada u otro material, bastante más alta que ancha, que se usa en diversos juegos como objeto a derribar con una bola que se arroja desde lejos. Pronounced [ˈbolo]. Often confused with boy and bot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bolo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbolo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bolo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbolo]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,760 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 17 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 bolo, with forms such as "bbolo", "bloo", and "bool". 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, "boy", "bot", "bro", 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 bolo, spelled B-O-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pieza de madera labrada u otro material, bastante más alta que ancha, que se usa en diversos juegos como objeto a derribar con una bola que se arroja desde lejos.
- 2Bola (lance de naipes).
- 3Representación teatral fuera de programa o de temporada, que se hace aprovechando alguna circunstancia de oportunidad o lugar.
- 4Tropa de cómicos y actores de poca categoría que explotan una obra famosa y la van representando de pueblo en pueblo.
- 5Actor con un papel en una obra, pero que no forma parte del elenco normal de actores de esa compañía.
- 6Nabo (cilindro vertical).
- 7Gran dosis de medicamento administrado en un solo disparo.
- 8Caña llena de vino.
- 9Almohadilla (almohada para hacer encajes de bolillos)
- 10Usado en plural Bolos, Juego que consiste en derribar un cierto número de bolos, piezas de madera, destinados a este fin.
- 11Monedas que se dan de regalo a los niños que asisten a un bautizo.
- 12Asistencia y participación en un bautizo.
- 13Moneda nacional de Venezuela, bolívar.
- 14Madero o palo tosco que aun no ha sido aserrado.
- 15Fragmento granítico suelto con una forma notablemente redonda.
- 16Se dice del ave sin cola.
- 17Carente de conocimientos o habilidad, de cortos alcances.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbolo,bloo,bool,oblo,volo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bolo
Misspelling Variants of "bolo"
Frequency rank: #24,760 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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