Bolonia
[boˈlonja]
The verdict
“Bolonia” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #24,043 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #24,043
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bolonia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [boˈlonja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bolonia” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Bolonia is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bolonia, with forms such as "bbolonia", "bloonia", and "bollonia". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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. The correct Spanish form is Bolonia, spelled B-O-L-O-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1Ciudad 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).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbolonia,bloonia,bollonia,bolnoia,boloina,bolonai,bolonnia,boolnia,oblonia,volonia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bolonia - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “Bolonia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-O-L-O-N-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [boˈlonja] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “bosnia” - see the side-by-side comparison. Bolonia vs bosnia
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.