bridge

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for bridge is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbɾið̞t͡ʃ]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,759 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Juego de cartas o naipes, para cuatro jugadores que juegan en parejas, que consiste en que en cada ronda una de las parejas debe ganar como mínimo un número de bazas previamente acordado en una sub...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bridge, with forms such as "bbridge", "birdge", and "brdige". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "brie", "bring", "brinde", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is bridge, spelled B-R-I-D-G-E.