Budapest
The verdict
“Budapest” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #12,100 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #12,100
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Ciudad capital de Hungría.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Budapest |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [buð̞aˈpest̪] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Budapest” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Budapest is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [buð̞aˈpest̪]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,100 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ciudad capital de Hungría.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Budapest, with forms such as "bbudapest", "bduapest", and "buadpest". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Bucarest", 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 Budapest, spelled B-U-D-A-P-E-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ciudad capital de Hungría.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbudapest,bduapest,buadpest,budaepst,budapesst,budapestt,budapets,budappest,budapset,buddapest,budpaest,ubdapest,vudapest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Budapest — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Budapest"
Frequency rank: #12,100 in Spanish
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Using “Budapest”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-U-D-A-P-E-S-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [buð̞aˈpest̪] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Bucarest” — see the side-by-side comparison. Budapest vs Bucarest
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Spanish index: