bos
/ˈboːs/
The verdict
“bos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,013) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,013
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal bovino.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bos · bos · Spanish
bos · rank #44,013 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,013
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bosé
Nearest frequency peer: bosé (+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 “bos”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- bolígrafos
bolígrafos
55,992 corpus weight
- bombear
bombear
55,991 corpus weight
- bongo
bongo
55,990 corpus weight
- bos
bos
55,988 corpus weight
- bosé
bosé
55,987 corpus weight
- burlón
burlón
55,985 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bos” 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 | bos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈboːs/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bos”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bos is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈboːs/. Frequency #44,013 among 2,459 “B” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
bos has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "bus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is bos, spelled B-O-S.
Definition
- 1Animal bovino.
- 2Animal bovino.
- 3Animal bovino.
- 4Animal bovino.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).