bonsái
[bõnˈsaj]
The verdict
“bonsái” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #79,825 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,825
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arte de cultivar árboles y plantas, normalmente arbustos, controlando su tamaño para que permanezcan de un tamaño muy inferior al natural.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bonsai · bonsái · Spanish
bonsái · rank #79,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,825
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bonachón
Nearest frequency peer: bonachón (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “bonsái”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- bisel
bisel
20,184 corpus weight
- bisontes
bisontes
20,183 corpus weight
- bizcochuelo
bizcochuelo
20,182 corpus weight
- bonachón
bonachón
20,178 corpus weight
- bonsái
bonsái
20,176 corpus weight
- borraría
borraría
20,173 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “bonsái” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bonsái |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bõnˈsaj] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “bonsái” en español
Rare enough to double-check
bonsái is uncommon Spanish at frequency #79,825 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bõnˈsaj]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bonsái, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 bonsái, spelled B-O-N-S-Á-I.
Definition
- 1Arte de cultivar árboles y plantas, normalmente arbustos, controlando su tamaño para que permanezcan de un tamaño muy inferior al natural.
- 2Planta que es el resultado de practicar el arte y la técnica bonsái.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bonsái appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No crean que no tengo el temple de un samurái Ni que mi cerebro es del tamaño de un bonsái Aunque se que hoy estoy en offside No parece pero aquí adentro tengo un Intel Inside
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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