búfalo
[ˈbufalo]
The verdict
“búfalo” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #27,124. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,124
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mamífero artiodáctilo de la familia de los bóvidos (Bovidae). Poblaba las planicies de toda Norteamérica desde el norte de México, interior de Estados Unidos, y hasta Canadá. Tiene un pelaje de col...
Corpus desk
Index ES-bufalo · búfalo · Spanish
búfalo · rank #27,124 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,124
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH búho
Nearest frequency peer: búho (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “búfalo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- bronco
bronco
72,880 corpus weight
- búfalo
búfalo
72,877 corpus weight
- búho
búho
72,876 corpus weight
- caber
caber
72,875 corpus weight
- calidades
calidades
72,874 corpus weight
- callarse
callarse
72,873 corpus weight
What this shows “búfalo” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | búfalo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbufalo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “búfalo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around búfalo (IPA [ˈbufalo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,124 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mamífero artiodáctilo de la familia de los bóvidos (Bovidae). Poblaba las planicies de toda Norteamérica desde el norte de México, interior de Estados Unidos, y hasta Canadá. Tiene un pelaje de col...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for búfalo, with forms such as "bbúfalo", "bfúalo", and "búaflo". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Buffalo", "búfalos", "búscalo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is búfalo, spelled B-Ú-F-A-L-O.
Definition
- 1Mamífero artiodáctilo de la familia de los bóvidos (Bovidae). Poblaba las planicies de toda Norteamérica desde el norte de México, interior de Estados Unidos, y hasta Canadá. Tiene un pelaje de color marrón oscuro durante el invierno, y uno más liviano de color marrón claro durante el verano. Llegan a medir hasta 1,60 m de alto y 3 m de largo, y pesan de 450 a 1350 kg.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbúfalo
- bfúalo
- búaflo
- búfallo
- búfaol
- búffalo
- búflao
- vúfalo
- úbfalo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of búfalo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).