Borra
[ˈbora]
The verdict
“Borra” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,303) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,303
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-borra · Borra · Spanish
Borra · rank #14,303 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,303
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH boluda
Nearest frequency peer: boluda (-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 “Borra”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- barranco
barranco
85,701 corpus weight
- bc
bc
85,700 corpus weight
- boluda
boluda
85,699 corpus weight
- Borra
Borra
85,698 corpus weight
- bots
bots
85,697 corpus weight
- bruta
bruta
85,696 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Borra” 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 | Borra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈbora] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Borra”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Borra is neighbouring look-alikes ("bra", "bota", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈbora]. Frequency #14,303 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Apellido.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for Borra, with forms such as "bborra", "brora", and "vorra". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bra", "bota", "Boya", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is Borra, spelled B-O-R-R-A.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bborra
- brora
- vorra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Borra - 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 "Borra", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).