bora
/ˈbora/
The verdict
“bora” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,261) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,261
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bora · bora · Spanish
bora · rank #28,261 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,261
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH boceto
Nearest frequency peer: boceto (-1 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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “bora”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- beauty
beauty
71,743 corpus weight
- boa
boa
71,742 corpus weight
- boceto
boceto
71,741 corpus weight
- bora
bora
71,740 corpus weight
- botines
botines
71,739 corpus weight
- Bristol
Bristol
71,737 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bora” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | bora |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbora/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bora”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bora is neighbouring look-alikes ("boy", "bot", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈbora/. Frequency #28,261 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Paso.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bora, with forms such as "bbora", "boar", and "broa". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boy", "bot", "bro", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is bora, spelled B-O-R-A.
Definition
- 1Paso.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbora
- boar
- broa
- vora
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bora - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bora", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).