Bolonia

/[boˈlonja]/ name

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#24,043

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

Bolonia is aSpanishname. It means: Ciudad de Italia, que está situada a 55 m. de altitud y es capital de la provincia y de la región Emilia Romagna, en el extremo sur de la llanura del río Po, al pie de los Apeninos. Se encuentra en... Pronounced [boˈlonja]. Often confused with bosnia and Bolivia.

Key facts for Bolonia
PropertyValue
HeadwordBolonia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA[boˈlonja]
Letters7
Frequency rank#24,043
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Bolonia in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Bolonia is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [boˈlonja]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,043 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ciudad de Italia, que está situada a 55 m. de altitud y es capital de la provincia y de la región Emilia Romagna, en el extremo sur de la llanura del río Po, al pie de los Apeninos. Se encuentra en...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Bolonia, with forms such as "bbolonia", "bloonia", and "bollonia". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bosnia", "Bolivia", "biología", 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 Bolonia, spelled B-O-L-O-N-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ciudad de Italia, que está situada a 55 m. de altitud y es capital de la provincia y de la región Emilia Romagna, en el extremo sur de la llanura del río Po, al pie de los Apeninos. Se encuentra entre Módena (38 Km.) y Florencia (80 Km.), a 110 Km. de Rimini, 135 Km. de San Marino y 150 Km. de Vicenza. Su Universidad fundada en 1088 es la más antigua del mundo, por lo que también es conocida por "Bolonia la Docta". A sus habitantes se les denomina boloñeses (bolognesi en italiano).

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbolonia,bloonia,bollonia,bolnoia,boloina,bolonai,bolonnia,boolnia,oblonia,volonia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Bolonia

Misspelling Variants of "Bolonia"

bbolonia8bloonia7bollonia8bolnoia7boloina7bolonai7bolonnia8boolnia7
Misspelling Variants of "Bolonia"

Frequency rank: #24,043 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Bolonia"?
"Bolonia" is spelled B-O-L-O-N-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [boˈlonja].
What does "Bolonia" mean?
As a name, "Bolonia" means: Ciudad de Italia, que está situada a 55 m. de altitud y es capital de la provincia y de la región Emilia Romagna, en el extremo sur de la llanura del río Po, al pie de los Apeninos. Se encuentra en...
What words are commonly confused with "Bolonia"?
"Bolonia" is commonly confused with "bosnia", "Bolivia", "biología". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Bolonia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Bolonia" is [boˈlonja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Bolonia" come from?
"Bolonia" 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. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.