bolso
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,985
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bolso is aSpanishnoun. It means: Complemento para las mujeres similar a una maleta de mano donde suelen llevar sus objetos personales, como por ejemplo: las llaves, el pintalabios, las gafas, el monedero, articulos de bisutería, e... Pronounced [ˈbolso]. It ranks #6,985 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with boo and bos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bolso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbolso] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bolso is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbolso]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,985 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 bolso, with forms such as "bbolso", "bloso", and "bollso". 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", "bos", "BSO", 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 bolso, spelled B-O-L-S-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Complemento para las mujeres similar a una maleta de mano donde suelen llevar sus objetos personales, como por ejemplo: las llaves, el pintalabios, las gafas, el monedero, articulos de bisutería, el peine, etc.
- 2Bolsillo del dinero.
- 3Bolsillo del vestido.
- 4Especie de hinchazón que forma una vela, ya a causa del viento que la hiere, ya por haber cogido aire al manejarla.
- 5Se dice de cada una de las porciones que las velas, prinicipalmente las cuadras, quedan formando una vez cargadas.
- 6Tipo de equipaje de material flexible pero resistente, menor que una maleta, usado para llevar enseres.
- 7Por extensión, dícese de la mochila, bolsa de material resistente adosada a la espalda.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbolso,bloso,bollso,bolsso,boslo,oblso,volso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bolso
Misspelling Variants of "bolso"
Frequency rank: #6,985 in Spanish
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