brujo
[ˈbɾuxo]
The verdict
“brujo” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #18,173 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #18,173
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Varón que posee o al que se le adjudican poderes mágicos, especialmente de origen religioso
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 | brujo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɾuxo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “brujo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for brujo is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbɾuxo]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,173 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Varón que posee o al que se le adjudican poderes mágicos, especialmente de origen religioso".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for brujo, with forms such as "bbrujo", "brjuo", and "brrujo". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "buzo", "buró", "búho", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is brujo, spelled B-R-U-J-O.
Definition
- 1Varón que posee o al que se le adjudican poderes mágicos, especialmente de origen religioso
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrujo,brjuo,brrujo,brujjo,bruoj,burjo,rbujo,vrujo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brujo - 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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Using “brujo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-R-U-J-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈbɾuxo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “buzo” - see the side-by-side comparison. brujo vs buzo
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.