bolsa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,969
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bolsa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Recipiente de material flexible, especialmente tela Pronounced [ˈbolsa]. It ranks #1,969 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with bos and boys.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bolsa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbolsa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bolsa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbolsa]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,969 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for bolsa, with forms such as "bbolsa", "blosa", and "bollsa". 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, "bos", "boys", "bots", 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 bolsa, spelled B-O-L-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Recipiente de material flexible, especialmente tela
- 2En particular, el pequeño y cerrado por un cordón en que se llevaba antiguamente el dinero.
- 3En particular, el de material resistente en que se guarda ropa y otros efectos para viajar
- 4En particular, el que se colgaba del aparejo de un carruaje para transportar efectos.
- 5En particular, el pequeño de tela delicada con que antiguamente se recogían los varones europeos el cabello.
- 6En particular, el pequeño que se cose por el interior de una prenda, para llevar dinero y otros efectos
- 7Pliegue abultado que se forma en las costuras de una prenda mal cosida, o al vestirla alguien de otra talla.
- 8Pliegue similar que hace la piel del párpado inferior.
- 9Depósito o cantidad de un material rodeado por otro, especialmente un mineral en el suelo.
- 10Por extensión, grupo social similarmente aislado.
- 11Conjunto de bienes que alguien posee, en especial los líquidos.
- 12Suma de dinero que se ofrece al ganador o a los participantes en una competición.
- 13Situación de estar rodeada una tropa por el enemigo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbolsa,blosa,bollsa,bolssa,bosla,oblsa,volsa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bolsa
Misspelling Variants of "bolsa"
Frequency rank: #1,969 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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