boro
[ˈboɾo]
The verdict
“boro” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,109 among 2,459 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,109
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - El boro es un elemento químico de la tabla periódica que tiene el símbolo B y número atómico 5. Es un elemento metaloide, semiconductor, trivalente que existe abundantemente en el mineral bórax. Ha...
Corpus desk
Index ES-boro · boro · Spanish
boro · rank #50,109 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,109
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bok
Nearest frequency peer: bok (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “boro”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- bisagras
bisagras
49,895 corpus weight
- boat
boat
49,894 corpus weight
- bok
bok
49,893 corpus weight
- boro
boro
49,892 corpus weight
- borracheras
borracheras
49,891 corpus weight
- borradas
borradas
49,890 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “boro” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈboɾo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “boro” en español
Rare enough to double-check
boro is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,109 among 2,459 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈboɾo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "El boro es un elemento químico de la tabla periódica que tiene el símbolo B y número atómico 5. Es un elemento metaloide, semiconductor, trivalente que existe abundantemente en el mineral bórax. Ha...".
boro has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 boro, spelled B-O-R-O.
Definition
- 1El boro es un elemento químico de la tabla periódica que tiene el símbolo B y número atómico 5. Es un elemento metaloide, semiconductor, trivalente que existe abundantemente en el mineral bórax. Hay dos alótropos del boro; el boro amorfo es un polvo marrón, pero el boro metálico es negro. La forma metálica es dura (9,3 en la escala de Mohs) y es un mal conductor a temperatura ambiente. No se ha encontrado libre en la naturaleza.
This word in other languages
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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