both
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,462
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
both is anSpanishadj. It means: Ambos, ambas. Pronounced /bəʊɵ/. Often confused with boy and box.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | both |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | /bəʊɵ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for both is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bəʊɵ/. Corpus data places it at rank #37,462 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ambos, ambas.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for both, with forms such as "bboth", "boht", and "bothh". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boy", "box", "but", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is both, spelled B-O-T-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ambos, ambas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bboth,boht,bothh,botth,btoh,obth,voth
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for both
Misspelling Variants of "both"
Frequency rank: #37,462 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Spanish index: